EDAG has windshields for the Night Rider
Posted on March 10, 2009 by admin Under Cars · Leave a Comment
A German auto-engineering company has brought out a prototype-version car which has windshields with OLED displays to help enhance communication with vehicles around it.
This prototype of EDAG, ‘Light Car – Open Source,’ works on a principle which is identical to the one used by phone manufacturers when relating to the replacement of UI’s physical buttons. That is, the display can possess inputs which are easily customizable and can also perk up the surface related to dynamic media. As far as the Light Car is concerned, the OLED screen can show the condition of the road and when you hit the brake or stop, the back shield will light up with a huge ‘stop’ sign thereby warning the vehicle behind you.
In the case of this particular first design, this glass panel OLED actually displays up in the front portion of the outline of the car, or rather add on to the area over which the LED headlights truly blast out into the night. At the rear end, above the OLED screen, a transparent tailgate has been built.
The big idea of the EDAG is to let users configure headlights’ shape, on the computer, when buying a similar car. This will allow the OLED effects to be accordingly created around it. Thereby if you are a die-hard fan of the S.F. Giants and you are hitting the Park to have a look at Barry Zito knock-out the game, you could, in fact, plug in small signs of digital dollars, surrounding the headlights. On the other hand, you could avoid doing this as it might just be too distracting to other drivers.
It seems that EDAG has nearly no intentions to make the LC-OS. Instead, they are keener on sharing or selling the technology to manufacturers of big cars so that they will get onto the streets as quickly as two to three years.
To get onto the more realistic side of things, if you are a defensive driver, the OLED displays wouldn’t be very value adding. After all, everyone has gotten used to looking out for the two fading red back lights for decades now. However, the OLED displays could be a big boon to those who can’t see very well. To put it in a different perspective: the people who shouldn’t be on the roads at all.
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