Mr Glass Auto Glass 101

General Motors is also using technology to help older drivers. The company’s Human Machine Interface division is developing a windshield to help older drivers compensate for vision loss and slower reaction times. Images appear on the glass, similar to the lines drawn on a football field on TV to highlight plays.

The windshield can then draw an outline around a road sign or a pedestrian or the sides of the road in heavy fog. With infrared sensors, a small red icon of a deer could pop up just before the animal jumps in front of your car.

“It would highlight the location of the deer so you could take evasive action if you needed to,” says GM’s Thomas Seder.

It will be at least six years before this windshield comes to market. But other technologies are available now, like radar-assisted blind-spot detection. Of course, all this work doesn’t mean we’ll never have to retire the keys. But most of us may be able to keep driving more safely and for a lot longer than we do now.

http://chandler.injuryboard.com/automobile-accidents/new-technology-in-windshields-from-general-motors-to-aid-aging-drivers.aspx?googleid=276608

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