When you drive all the way, suddenly someone grabbed on your way. When some one start pressing the horn or making cuts on you. At this time, your windshield flashed a virtual message: “rushing to the hospital” may cause you on the sympathetic heart cool down spontaneously while driving and dealing with the situation.
AR Road Application Augmented Reality on Windscreen
According to foreign media reports, researchers of Netherlands Eindhoven University of Technology, Chao Wang and his colleagues developed AR Road Application that aims to strengthen communication between the drivers to reduce road accidents. In the United States about 1,500 people are injured or killed each year because of provocative driving behavior.
The new innovation has a prototype of the “social car”. In this AR Road Application in front of the driver right on the windshield area on the transparent screen. It can even display the information sent by the smart phone wireless with AR Road Application.
When the mobile phone camera sweeps to other vehicles using the system, the AR Road Application software will display the relevant vehicle driver information. The additional special periscope lens allows the flatbed camera to take the vehicle in front of the driver and put the image on the screen.
At present, in this AR Road Application the camera identifies other vehicles by a specially designed sticker attached to the rear window of the vehicle. However, Chao Wang says that in the future they may use automatic license plate recognition technology.
One of the characteristics of this system is known as CarNote. That is, the driver can choose a virtual logo, such as “going to the hospital” or “going to the airport”.
Other drivers will “see” through the windshield. These signs or words appear on the marked vehicle. Wang Chao says that in order to prevent abuse, each person must have to use the logo for for limited number of times for AR Road Application.
Another feature is that users can send “praise” and “step” to other drivers as they do on Facebook. If someone gives way, you can give him some “praise” to express your gratitude.
AR Road Application Vs Interconnected Cars
If someone robs, you can give him a “step on”. Chao Wang even says that insurance companies can take these indications and data into account when determining premiums. If someone is “stepped on” many times, it may affect its premium.
Representatives at University of Twente in the Netherlands says: “AR Road Application idea is very sensible.” However,it needs to promote the communication data exchange between drivers. But its life may be very short. Because the future is “interconnected car”. That may be able to have direct Communication, without the need for drivers to enter the right information.