If you've been hankering for some HUD action in your next auto, you'll have one more choice come next spring: the all-new 2012 BMW 3 Series. The launch will mark the first time a heads-up display has made it into Bavaria's volume seller, after debuting as an optional extra eons ago on its 5 Series. Since then, HUDs of limited hues have permeated München's high-end, splaying speed and navigation directions in the line of sight of road-going elites everywhere. However, this iteration is "full-color," which besides pleasing ROY G. BIV fans, makes it "more intuitive," as the company reasons it'll aid drivers in recognizing crucial alerts faster. That, or we're really just a generation away from über cool AR wizardry and movies on our windscreens. Of course, no word on when the 3's brethren will get the technicolor treatment, but we're betting it won't be long, given that's the dash of a 6 Series you see above. PR, per usual, is after the break. Show full PR textBMW Head-Up Display: Precision as featured in a fighter jet. This system was initially developed for aviation and is now making a decisive contribution towards driving safety.
28.10.2011
Munich. Low-flying over hilly terrain at a pace of almost 800 kilometres per hour within the cockpit of a Eurofighter jet is a challenge to even probably the most hardened of military pilots. "Whenever you're flying at tree-high top at around 220 metres a second, solely extremely correct head-up display know-how is able to present the required ease of mind," comments Wing Commander Robert Hierl, check pilot on the Technical and Airworthiness Centre for Aircraft.
By the use of a front panel projector, all flight-relevant data provided by the flight administration system in addition to data and indicators crucial to a mission are displayed on a second, vertically positioned panel located within the cockpit. As a way to stop the pilot from being distracted, all information is displayed in virtual form at eye level throughout the direct visual view, thus guaranteeing the very best degree of focus, supremacy and security for each the pilot and the machine.
BMW was the primary European car builder to adapt head-up show expertise - a system initially deployed in aviation and constantly further developed over a number of decades - for use in quantity-manufacturing vehicles. Since January 2004, this innovative driver assistance system has been an integral a part of BMW ConnectedDrive provided for the BMW 5 Series. Constantly further developed and optimised, it is now a full-color head-up show and optionally available for almost all series.
When it comes to graphic illustration, functionality and adaptability, the unique new Head-Up Show characteristic makes a big contribution towards active security by displaying driver-relevant data in excessive-high quality resolution throughout the driver's direct field of vision, so that he or she doesn't have to take their eyes off the road. An important gain in safety as researchers know: A traditional driver takes a whole second to learn the velocity indicator in the instrument panel or to glance on the navigation device. While the driving force is distracted, that's with out his or her eyes on the street, the automobile covers a distance of round 14 metres when travelling in urban areas at a velocity of fifty km/h - nearly a "blind flight".
With Head-Up Display, the time required by the driving force to assimilate data is decreased by more than a half, the system making a decisive contribution in direction of concentrated and centered driving. The virtual picture projected onto the windscreen is perceived as "hovering" at eye degree above the bonnet and is seen solely to the driver. Moreover, this form of display is less tiring, as the attention does not must constantly change between shut-vary and distant vision. Additionally, the brightness of the image adjusts perfectly to the surroundings, in order that the eye does not have to readapt every time.
The reproduction of information is effected by means of an intense gentle source, which is positioned inside the instrument panel and shines by a translucent TFT (Skinny Film Transistor) show, the image being transferred to the windscreen through specifically shaped mirrors. Owing to the convex form and the physical properties of glass, using the windscreen as a reflector is an extremely advanced process. In a windscreen, the sunshine path is generally refracted, leading to double images.
In the case of the Eurofighter, this drawback is solved by means of an additional panel positioned straight within the pilot's field of vision. BMW tackles this bodily phenomenon with the aid of a wafer-skinny foil, which is integrated into the windscreen, guaranteeing the superimposition of the projected images and, in consequence, flawless, undistorted representation. Full-colour Head-Up Show offers the motive force an incredible enhance in reading comfort. The entire color spectrum facilitates a sensible and thus extra intuitive show of pictures and symbols. These communicate for themselves, are perceived even sooner and wouldn't have to be decoded or interpreted. Even Eurofighter test pilot Robert Hierl is very impressed: "Our monochrome head-up display know-how is unable to offer such a brilliant show quality."
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