Microsoft currently works on a system HUD, or “posting high head” intended for the cars. At least, it is what lets think a description deposited on the site of the American Office of the patents and the marks.
The HUD profits already from a long past behind him, since it equips the fighters with the whole world since the end of the Fifties. Its utility is to concentrate information essential with the pilot in front of his glance, without this one needing to leave the environment of the eyes. In practice, the data appear on a horizontal bill-poster and are considered towards the pilot via a transparent blade tilted in front of the windshield. It is thus a virtual image which it sees in front of him.
A similar system would be thus designed to equip our cars, and would make it possible to the driver to know the parameters which are most useful for him without leaving the road of the glance. One thinks of course at the speed of the vehicle, with the engine speed, like with indications GPS or possible alarms on the road traffic.
But when one is called Microsoft, one does not stop there… Also, the originators of the firm of Bill Gates decided to integrate various additional activities, which could transform our car very well into wandering office… There is of course no question of answering its mail or of drawing up the assessment of a company while leading, the programmers having provided that this type of activity could be exerted only with the stop. On the other hand, the HUD could come very well to assistance of the telephone and post the incoming calls and outgoing, or help to program wiring for sound. Coupled with a device of voice recognition, it could also receive instructions such as the composition of the numbers, the ordering of the integral lighting and external, the air conditioning, etc
Obviously, nothing says that all the projects evoked in the patent of Microsoft will be carried out, but the firm already, in the past, showed its interest in the automobile equipment.