head-up displays for your car ?

[Robert Stratton]

That was done with the "Carman" OBDII app for the Nokia Internet Tablet. It is, as they say, a righteous hack.

--Bob

----- "Alex Fraser" <beatnic at comcast.net> wrote:

> The car monitors your head position, does it keep a log of them? If
> you get in an accident would you have to turn over that log to the
> police?
> I sat my Android phone on the dash the other day so it could pick up
> GPS better. It created a HUD by accident. I'd like to see an app to
> turn the screen backwards so you could read it frontwards in the
> reflection.
> 
> andre kesteloot wrote:
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> wb4jfi wrote:
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> While not as good, our 1989 (I believe) Olds Cutlass Supreme had a
> heads-up display that showed stuff like the speed, turn signal
> indicators, and other stuff. I seem to recall that some Corvettes have
> also had HUD technology. I missed the HUD when we got rid of that car,
> I kept looking for the speedometer.
> Next thing is that the HUD will have an Internet browser built-in....
> oops officer, I was just trying to reboot Windows on my HUD and didn't
> see that Nun, or the schoolchildren that she was shepherding across
> the parking lot. I'm glad that her helper-dog is OK, however. Can you
> still drive your cruiser? Who could believe all that damage from my
> tiny little Prius with Windows 7? It was NOT my idea!
> 
> the perfect story to be told the judge in a few years ...
> :-)
> André
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