The chipset just announced is the TI DLP3000-Q1. The package comprises a 0.3-inch 800 x 480 (WVGA) digital micromirror device (DMD) and a controller, DLPC120. It is sampling now to automakers and top tier suppliers. TI says automakers will likely start with LED illumination (the light that shines onto the rotating mirror) and can be upgraded to even brighter laser illumination. The laser bounces off the DMD, and then off a silvered patch at the base of the windshield. So don’t listen to rumors that automakers are aiming a laser at your eyes. It’s actually the NSA with an invisible-light laser trying to capture your voice waves as they vibrate against the windshield. Trust us. The other sites have been silenced.
TI says the field of view has been doubled to 12 degrees, meaning more of the windshield can be covered if desired, and there may be less fiddling with the height adjustment when a 6-foot driver takes over from someone who’s 5-foot-6. Perhaps best of all, DLPs, unlike LCDs, don’t used polarized panels that darken and even appear black when a driver with polarized sunglasses cocks his or her head.
Even more idiot-proof navigation
For more than a decade, the auto industry has been wrestling with how to make navigation work better for clueless motorists, as well as for the normal driver confronted with two or even three streets or exits in close proximity. The voice prompt to “take the second exit in a half mile” might be confusing if it’s announced just as you pass an exit (“is that the first exit?”). As the graphic above shows, the navigation arrow could point exactly at the correct exit.
We assume the automakers will give the driver some control over the transparency of the arrow. What an industry committee deems just right might be too much or too little for individual drivers. We also assume drivers can dial back on the information in the windshield. You may not really need to know all the time that you’re averaging 19 mpg, that you’re currently getting 22 mpg, that you still have 360 miles of fuel, or that your phone battery is one bar down from full. This is just an artist rendering of what’s possible.
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