Head Up Display - Best HUD app

fj12ryder wrote:

LarryJM wrote:
That is very similar to what I have and as I said I can move that display up/down and change the intensity. Once you get familiar with the HUGE amount of information there (including a little turn arrow based on your NAV track so you don't even have to look at your normal car display) IMO it makes overall driving much safer for everyone. Those like fj12ryder that have absolutely no idea how these things work and unfortunately like express factless opinions that are very unhelpful and totally off base.:h:S His lame comparison to something like a cell phone where you have to actually take you eyes off the road and concentrate on interacting with something in your hand just demonstrates IMO his total lack of understanding what reasonably designed HUDS are all about.

Larry

Perhaps you shouldn't be using that since it's seems like you can't understand the written word very well. I compared the HUD to a cell phone only in that it is a distraction. Ever watch these yahoos text? They put that phone right there at the top of their steering wheel so they don't have to look down. They just refocus from the view ahead to the view on their phone, kind of like refocusing on the HUD. Since they don't have to look down it must be much safer, right? Well, maybe not.

I guess if you don't like the message, you attack the messenger. It's seems to be the only way to "defend" your view.

Well all I can say it that IMO there is ABSOLUTELY NO COMPARISON between a typical HUD display in a car and anything to do with a cell phone whether it's texting or even making a simple call. I don't text, but think that is the ultimate distraction and orders of magnitude more distracting than even making a simple cell phone call using preset numbers ... i.e. not having to actually use a keypad to dial the number being called. In fact I have the full "hands free" system in my Genesis with call/end buttons on the steering wheel and to make a call all I do is hit the call button on the steering wheel and then hit the "favs" on my Nav screen followed by pushing the number I want. This very simple operation is multiples more distracting than monitoring the HUD display in my car since I have to glace for the call/end button and then twice to select the favs, number selections on my Nav screen each requiring me to take my eyes away from the windshield area. You believe otherwise and since you obviously have ZERO experience comparing the two in actual use I'm not sure I could say anything to change your mistaken impressions.

Larry