The “augmented reality windshield,” or as they call it in English Augmented Reality (AR) Windshield, is the latest technology to be applied to the car that is expected to reduce accidents caused by poor visibility due to fog or lack of light.

Some manufacturers expect to put in the automotive market by 2016 and add some other applications. An article in the magazine Popular Cience March this year, explains that the visibility improvement system monitors eye movements and head conductor through sensors installed inside and outside the vehicle and processed images of these will be a “combination” enhanced what you see through the windshield.

In fact, they are looking for that instead of having a separate monitor showing what display outside, as we have with existing GPS, these “composite” images in front of the driver, as part of the windshield are presented, thus not having to look away from the front.

Today automotive laboratories are working with researchers from several universities such as Carnegie Mellon University of Southern California, but the technology is already applied to the aviation industry.