GM’s Enhanced Windshield Uses Lasers to Make Your Road Trips Safer

It makes it feel like you ’re in the middle of Tron , but GM ’s new head - up display ’s not just a way to play out childhood fantasies . The scheme projects optical maser - give images onto windshields , providing a nifty looking enhance sight display .

The idea is that unlike some of the HUDs on the marketplace now , this display would be full - windscreen and actually foreground or outline potential danger by using information from a compounding of on - vehicle sensors and camera :

Just imagine driving on a particularly showery or brumous day . Sure , you ’ll finally acknowledge that white car monkey around along with its lights off or that person pass across the street , but your automobile could alert you of their mien sooner . [ Jalopnik ]