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Garmin HUD Keeps Your Eyes on the Road
Tired of taking orders from a robot or merging into oncoming traffic while glancing at your GPS? 
Garmin recently announced the company’s first heads-up display device, simply called HUD. It’s reasonably priced, works with the company’s navigation apps StreetPilot and Navigon, and is compatible with any car that has a dashboard for it to rest on.
“Head-up displays currently have their place in select high-end cars, but HUD makes this technology available as an aftermarket accessory for any vehicle, at an affordable price,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin vice president of worldwide sales.
 
Drive safely with fewer distractions
The Garmin HUD works by projecting nav info onto a transparent film on the windshield or a reflector lens attached to the device. The display shows turn arrows, current speed and speed limit, distance to the next turn, and your estimated time of arrival. Like most GPS software, the HUD can also tell you what lane you should be in for the next turn or warn you if you go over the speed limit.
You can also receive alerts about potential traffic delays and upcoming safety camera locations. The display is easy to read too, automatically adjusting the brightness level for daytime or nighttime driving. And because the directions are in your line of sight, you’ll never have to take your eyes off the road.

 

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Originally Posted by Sunil:

Garmin was almost bust last year, sales of GPS are down as top end cars have the built in and more folks are suing their smartphones/ blackberries etc.


why they suing tham?

FM
Originally Posted by TI:

I guess that is why people still getting lost even with a GPS.

 

More people are getting lost with GPS since they have become overdependant on the directions and stop reading the road signs, until the GPS leads them over a bridge under construction.

Sunil

Only last week a guy pulled up in his BMW 5 series and said the GPS showed that the local Sikh temple was in my road. I know it is about 2 miles from me, so I don't know how the GPS can make such a big error.

Mr.T

I had bought a GPS, but it only had directions for US cities, unfortunately I was at the Canadian border heading to Brampton when I realized this...well, I was forced to use my noggin, it was a liberating feeling

FM
Originally Posted by ball:

I bet that was painful since you does never use it and bam all of a sudden you use it.

Rayman, was that the time when it take you two days to get there?

 

FM

Iman had a directional problem the other day jus gettin out my driveway.

 

I read about a guy who blamed his GPS for making him drive under a bridge that was.... lower than his truck...BADDAM!

cain

NBC’s Tom Costello reported on TODAY Thursday, one GPS unit directed a woman with two kids in her car onto railroad tracks near Boston. They scrambled out just before a train rammed the car. In California’s Death Valley, a GPS device sent Donna Cooper, her daughter and a friend in search of roads that no longer existed. They were stranded for three days, in 128-degree weather, before being rescued.

"We just kept getting further and further and further into Death Valley,” Cooper told Costello.

The reasons for this happening are as simple as the consequences are dire. GPS units are fed by map software. Some software is kept fresh by driving teams mapping roads with sophisticated equipment; but others rely on maps that may be old and out of date. And even if software gets updated, some companies and users are lackadaisical, or too cheap, to download the latest updates to their devices.

FM

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