Mercedes windscreen vision of the future: displays data you pass over the bridge and tells you if there are free meals at a favorite restaurant. The applications of augmented reality, those that allow you to find out various information pointing the phone to buildings or other objects have a future in the automotive industry, said the Mercedes who presented at the fair CES Las Vegas a smart windscreen that gives real-time information about the places where the pass.

The information’s are displayed on your windscreen hologram style information such as bridge construction year he passed and restaurants in the area that have free meals at that time. Will take many years before the technology enters the car, but the first steps were taken. Mercedes presented in a smart windscreen simulator that the information display mode can be controlled by hand gestures.

Detailed Menus there a tactile surface extended on board and information display is varied, from data about the important goals he passed (bridges, buildings, etc.) to that song comes from the club across the street. Also on display you can see in real time what your friends post on Facebook and Twitter or can easily give messages, so you do not take your eyes off the road.

For example, if before going to a meeting at a certain time’s computer tell where and when to get, it will warn you in case you are late and will generate some messages from driver to elect the best by which to tell the person that will delay. “We are working on a new generation of vehicles that will truly digital companion role. Learn your habits, adapts to your wishes, you anticipate movements and interact with your friends on social networks, “said the CES, Dieter Zetsche, head of Mercedes Benz Cars.

The display information you designed and you can remove by simply if you hand motion seems windscreen is too loaded with unnecessary data. Those who developed the technology you say that the great advantage that the driver did not take their eyes off the road while going through the data displayed.

In a world where sales of smartphones and tablets grow strongly, car manufacturers have given realize that they win if the car provides applications with which consumers are accustomed. Some manufacturers present their concepts as a smartphone on wheels, some tablet machines attached shows what can be removed from the board and then used anywhere. Ford, on the other hand, its year-on-year perfections a Sync system which the driver interacts with machine by voice, not taking his eyes off the road.