Fully Loaded - nytimes article about drivers info overload

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/automobiles/autospecial2/30HOME.html

transparent oled - how does it work?

http://www.oled-display.net/how-works-a-transparent-oled

more stuff to think of....

- show a case study for each warning light

- Add a "mileage service warning" - due to the fact we took out the total mileage off the display

- Get a sample of the flexible material used in the market for the "flexible OLED" (sony?)

- What is the size / shape of the HUD?

- What are the tilt options in order to adjust the view angle of the information on the display

Hiro & Oz's HUD icons+animation

Hiro and Oz's interface instruments positions & hierarchy

Honda Civic Dashboard 2006

September 3, 2005 at 6:42 pm · Filed under 2006 Honda Civic, Cars

Honda’s interior for the 2006 Civic is screaming unorthodox. You thought centre dashboard meters were weird, but Honda has implemented a dual-tiered dashboard for this incarnation of the Civic.

The top tier or “level” features a digital speedometer, a fuel gauge and an engine temperature gauge. Honda says putting it at the very top closest to the windshield minimizes eye movements for the driver, letting them focus on the road more often. For the Civic Si, the top level also has an LED shift light which starts to blink red from 7400rpm onwards until the 8000rpm redline where it shines a solid amber.











The lower level is in the normal position just behind the steering wheel and it features a tachometer (RPM meter), odometer, warning indicators and in some models, a temperature gauge.












For the Civic Hybrid, the upper level also features fuel economy/mileage calculations and the lower level shows battery statuses.












For top-end models, the centre dashboard console also includes a 6.5″ LCD TFT touch screen which opens and closes to allow access to a single-slot CD player and a memory card reader which supports SD cards, CompactFlash cards and Flash ATA memory cards. The audio system can play MP3 and WMA files from these cards. You can control the navigation system and the audio system via joystick or buttons or via touching the options on the screen since it is a touch-screen.

HUD

The car dashboard. You will spend most of your time as a car owner facing it. Many car companies have been trying to revolutionize the way dashboard information is presented to you. Honda has it’s split deck design with 2 levels of meters. Some companies position the dashboard meter cluster in the middle like the Toyota VIOS, Nissan X-Trail and even our Perodua Kancil.

I kind of like Citroen’s approach with the Citroen C6’s dashboard. Nice and compact display shows indicators, RPM, speed, gear shift position and fuel level in digital form, and speed is projected on the windscreen via a heads-up display.

next steps (timo's list)

type of information sorted by hierarchy:

- primary displayed information

- secoundary displayed information

informations given by instruments of the car:

- speedometer

- tachometer (rev counter)

- blinker

- warning lights

- dimmed headlight

- long distance light

- fog lamp

- handbrake

- belt

- gas tank

- ABS, ESP and other electronic driving systems

- Airbag

- Time

- Navigation

- GPS, Gallileo (future european version)

- oiltemperature

- oilpressure

- temperature engine

- battery

- mileage (gas)

- average milage

- miles/ Km total, per trip

- cooling water temperature

- temperature inside, outside

- tire pressure

- lightposition

- entertainment system (radio, cd, dvd)

- air conditioning unit

- mobil phone

information from car surrounding conditions:

- street signs

- other traffic participants

driving scenario:

• start

• parking

• short stops (e.g. at traffic lights)

• driving in urban surroundings

• driving in landscape/ highway

(The scenarios "start" and the two "driving" situations are most important. "stops" and "parking" can be interesting but is over lower importance.)

CEBIT 3D Screen example

For our project, we could use this technology for different levels for the dashboard symbols maybe.

"3 dimensional display, its like.. looking into a box with objects in, but there aren’t really a box(it's just flat foil) cause it's an illusion.."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-KNAhW2DmM&NR=1

Technology of The Future- Philips Simplicity 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C075FloBPHE&NR=1

Customizable OLED Phone

I think it is just a concept so far, anway interesting to see. Checkit out here:

www.chriskujawski.com

Aim:

Our solution should help driver to reduce the informationsstream, so driver can concentrate more on driving and has less to process during driving, so is less distracted from this big mass on informations. How to undertake some tasks for the driver?
What about improving the reactiontime between car and pedestrian?

The time between
action (pedestrian on the road) and
reaction (driver brakes) is too long
plus the time until the reaction, which might dont be in time ( when the driver is for instance distracted by sth.)


Solution:

The car should overtake the reaction of a driver before the accident happens and before the driver reacts (because reactiontime too long).

The communication between the car and the pedestrian should be more faster and more direct and influence directly the brakes for instance.


How:

Combination out of activ RFID chips and ISA
(RFID Radiofrequence-Identification ISA Intelligent Speed Adaption)


each pedestrian has a RFID chip ( doesnt matter where, bag, clothes...)




















each car has a RFID Reader, which detects pedestrians in a certain area around a car (for instance 50m distance) and gives a signal to a car, which is ready to react (reduce the speed or brake) additionally there is an acustic and visual signal, which informs the driver.

HOW OLED WORKS?

OLED Components (FROM HOWSTUFFWORK.COM)

Like an LED, an OLED is a solid-state semiconductor device that is 100 to 500 nanometers thick or about 200 times smaller than a human hair. OLEDs can have either two layers or three layers of organic material; in the latter design, the third layer helps transport electrons from the cathode to the emissive layer. In this article, we'll be focusing on the two-layer design.

An OLED consists of the following parts:

• Substrate (clear plastic, glass, foil) - The substrate supports the OLED.
• Anode (transparent) - The anode removes electrons (adds electron "holes") when a current flows through the device.
• Organic layers - These layers are made of organic molecules or polymers.
  • Conducting layer - This layer is made of organic plastic molecules that transport "holes" from the anode. One conducting polymer used in OLEDs is polyaniline.
  • Emissive layer - This layer is made of organic plastic molecules (different ones from the conducting layer) that transport electrons from the cathode; this is where light is made. One polymer used in the emissive layer is polyfluorene.
• Cathode (may or may not be transparent depending on the type of OLED) - The cathode injects electrons when a current flows through the device.

New Mercedes S-Class rocks Night View Assist

It’s not too often that we hit up advances in car technology over here but this is just a bit too tasty to pass up. Now in addition to a PCMCIA slot, Mercedes-Benz is premiering their “Night view assist” system on their new, 2007 S-Class series which is said to increase nighttime visibility by up to 125 percent -- without blinding on-coming motorists. It uses infrared light to cast a broad beam ahead of the vehicle and then displays the 8-inch grayscale image on the dashboard LCD. Yeah, we know, what’s the big deal, other cage manufactures have offered these options in the past. But check out the vid over at AutoSpies though, we think it's worth your while. (From : ENGADGET.COM)

an interesting application...

Take the input from your PMA camera and its on-board GPS/GIS software. Identify where you are, what you're looking at. The AR software provides a layer of information superimposed on your environment that relates to your schedule and the things you need to get done. There's no reason why AR technology should be limited in use to people working on cars, factory floors, insurance estimators, etc. If it's useful for them it will be useful for everyone. Just need some time for the powers that be to realize this and commit the resources to make the devices and software that are capable of bringing this to fruition. My bet is, there will be a nationwide AR infrastructure probably on CDMA networks by the end of this decade.

Applications Using OLED Microdisplays - US Army

Among the applications already utilizing OLED include the full-color ProView SO-35 monocular viewer from Kaiser Electro-Optics, providing thermal sighting and situational awareness. Proview SO-35 developed for the US Army Land Warrior Program.

OLED - what exactly is it good for?

OLED
Organic light-emitting diode technology will be the next big thing in flat panel displays. Invented by Eastman Kodak in the early 1980s, OLED is made of small lumps of organic material that glow when electrical current is applied, a process known as electrophosphorescence.

When OLED is used to produce displays, the technology can produce self-luminous screens that don’t require a source of light like LCD or DLP (thus requiring less power), so manufacturers can obtain screens that are even thinner than LCD displays. Low resolution OLED displays can be printed on plastic, resulting in a cheap manufacturing process. Because of all this, OLED has started to replace LCD in handheld devices such as PDAs, MP3 players, and shavers.

One of the best aspects of OLED is that it will allow transparent, flexible screens. The US government is currently funding OLED research to produce a HUD that will allow soldiers to view through their helmets while receiving orders. Yes, the technology seen in Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Minority Report is just around the corner.

OLED sounds like the holy grail of displays since it doesn’t have any of the drawbacks found in other flat panel technologies and has several advantages over them, such as increased brightness, faster response times and the screens are lighter, thinner, and consume less power.(from teambox.com)