Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Jaguar Land Rover Enhances Driving With Ghost Cars, Pillars

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Worried about checking those corners with those thick pillars in the way? Always wanted to bring the Forza experience into the real world? Jaguar Land Rover's got you covered.

Regarding the pillars, JLR unveiled its 360 Virtual Urban Windscreen, which combines a high-end HUD with cameras embedded in the surface of a given vehicle's A-, B- and C-pillars to help the driver see potential problems that would otherwise be obscured by said vehicle's blind spots.

How? Upon checking the corners to change direction, a given pillar would go transparent, showing the pillar's live video feed of what might be hiding. The same effect occurs upon approach toward an intersection, when the system automatically makes either right- or left-side pillars transparent.

The virtual windscreen can also pull information from the cloud — gas prices, restaurant locations, parking spots — helping to keep the driver's eyes where they're needed the most: on the road. This is further enhanced with the addition of JLR's Follow-Me Ghost Car Navigation, which places a ghost car in front of the driver to aid in arriving at a destination with help from the cloud.

The post Jaguar Land Rover Enhances Driving With Ghost Cars, Pillars appeared first on The Truth About Cars.



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