THERE ARE PLENTY of ways to get directions in the car, but most have one big shortcoming. Whether you?re using a standalone GPS, in-car navi system, smartphone, the Apple Watch, or even a paper map, you have to look away from the road (you know, that thing you?re supposed to be paying attention to when driving) in order to see where you?re supposed to be going.
So how to keep your eyes on the road and not get lost? One option is the heads-up display. Increasingly common on high-end cars, these devices project things like navigation directions and current speed onto the windshield, so the driver has important information right in their field of vision. It?s a technology that?s fast spreading beyond this incarnation, though: We?ve seen screens showing ghost cars for racers, and another that uses lasers to ?paint? the edge of a road on the windshield in inclement weather. Then there are these wacky augmented reality concept goggles from Mini.
One of the latest gadgets to enter the fray is something called the Navion, from Swiss firm WayRay.
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