If you have an Automatic and want to use both, this will be a no go since each will need to use the OBD II port in your car.
Navdy: HUD for your car
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Re: Navdy: HUD for your car
#122Why are people comparing Navdy with not using a cellphone at all. That isn't the point of this device. People use their cellphones while driving, and are going to continue unless the government can physically prevent it all the time. This device isn't trying to prevent all types of distracted driving that cellphones create, but to minimize it. As a whole, the public is going to not only use cellphones to the level th…
Your post is impossible to follow. You jump to point to point without rhyme or reason many of which aren't really justified (even on a casual basis).
Here's just a few of the points you try to make:
- You don't think cellphone-driving laws work unless there is a cop literally with you 24/7.
- You think this device minimizes distracted driving (?)
- You think cellphone usage while driving is going to increase regardless (?)
- You feel that because cellphone usage while driving is going to increase (unsupported) and that Navdy is less distracting (unsupported) that Navdy is an improvement (?)
If you believe this stuff then you have to at least try a little tiny bit to justify it. Those are pretty far out there opinions some of which aren't really supported by the admittedly limited data we have.
Re: Navdy: HUD for your car
#123Why are people comparing Navdy with not using a cellphone at all. That isn't the point of this device. People use their cellphones while driving, and are going to continue unless the government can physically prevent it all the time. This device isn't trying to prevent all types of distracted driving that cellphones create, but to minimize it. As a whole, the public is going to not only use cellphones to the level th…
"People use their cellphones while driving"
No, some people do. It's illegal and I'm all for increasing policing and penalties to stop them.
Re: Navdy: HUD for your car
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where did you see that, I didn't notice they are offering anything like that?
Their 2nd big picture on the site shows it (with some artistic license): https://www.navdy.com/assets/bg_2-6d1e2edf72162edc92d6955512... Another one here: https://www.navdy.com/assets/directions-491e1e1af7ef47c676ab...
I meant, where can you rent a car with hud display like this, or I didn't understand what you were trying to say :)
Re: Navdy: HUD for your car
#125It's the same actor from the Coin video [1]. How strange. 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Sx34swEG0
Yup! He's the guy behind Sandwich Video, which makes a ton of ads for startups: http://sandwichvideo.com/
Mmm.. his terrible facial hair made me think it was an amature video. Hilarious that people are paying the guy money to put himself in their product videos and he doesn't even tidy his beard up.
Re: Navdy: HUD for your car
#126HUD navigation could be cool, but anything that takes attention from driving like showing text messages is a terrible idea and should be banned. Distracted driving is incredibly dangerous. Even hands free phone calls are distracting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_and_driving_safet...
Yep anything that engages your language processing: speaking, listening to conversations, singing, etc. interferes with your ability to process what's going on in front of you. Carrying on any sort of conversation, hands-free or no, impairs reaction time and your ability to drive safely. You're not supposed to talk to bus drivers without good reason, and this is partially why.
And yet, some how many many folks still manage to drive with passengers on a daily basis for years and years without incident.
Re: Navdy: HUD for your car
#127My senior project in college was very similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axDyhF1N7hY Navdy's interface looks quite a bit nicer though, for sure.
Awesome project! Did you create an actual HUD (projector) or just use the reflection off the windshield at night? (I emailed you as well)
In the video they say that they used 40/60 beamsplitter glass. It reflects the tablet directly.
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#128I'm not sure that showing off how your new product can make texting while driving easier is the best idea. The whole hands free debate isn't about literally keeping your hands free of objects, it's the psychological distraction of texting/talking/browsing that causes the safety issues. If it were just about keeping your hands free to stay on the steering wheel, people with one arm wouldn't be allowed to drive.
If that were absolutely true, eating while driving would be debated as heavily or more.
Depends where you are, but it is debated. See for example this case: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-23944993
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-19597446
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4788910.stm
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-22290619
Etc etc
Re: Navdy: HUD for your car
#129Using a HUD to read/write texts/tweets? It seems like the creators missed all the studies about the dangers of distracted driving. And pilots use HUD's so this must be safe? That would potentially hold water, if the pilots were using huds to tweet, text, and select music while landing... instead they're using huds to display important information... I like the technology, I just don't like the suggested use cases for…
I totally agree with your comments. Before Navdy, the stuff that distracts you are out of your focus. With Navdy, it bring the distractions right in your view, making it easier and faster to be distracted.
To be fair, they do claim you can disable alerts on a per-application basis. Plus, given that many drivers are going to check their messages anyway, I'd say a HUD is safer than looking at your phone
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are there any studies showing the same about radios? I remember reading articles suggesting as much.
I've long thought that it should be illegal to play any sort of siren on the radio. I can't tell you how many times I've gone into "fight or flight" mode because of some new hiphop single.
Same with an auto insurance radio commercial playing a horn, tires screeching, or even a car collision sound, how can that not be illegal.