GlobalTop GPS & Bluetooth HUD speed meter for your windscreen
Posted February 19th, 2007 by Alex Ion
I was always a fan of those marine fighter jets that I saw in the movies, with lots of buttons, windscreen data, infrared and night view making me a very faithful viewer. I think it had a very big impact on me, because I am driving a Citroen C4 and it has great features like the centrally mounted controls which lie in the middle to have a big view of them. However, GlobalTop Technology, a company manufacturing and designing top-notch GPS systems, is launching a GPS & Bluetooth HUD Speed Meter system that would display valuable informations directly on your windscreen.
GlobalTop GPS HUD speed meter is intended to display speed, direction and warnings when the speed limit has been broke. For navigation display it has Bluetooth connectivity that your smartphone or PDA device will love from the beginning. If you didn’t get what this device is doing from the first time I am saying it again. You get the speed and the navigation details directly on your windscreen, just like a jet-pilot.
This is not a product only for those very expensive and luxurious cars, but will be affordable for everyone. There is no release price yet on this one, but I am sure that as a gadget fan and car fan you will be able to buy one. There is no release date set for it, but the guys at DigitalReviews will have it for reviews and tests in April. Can’t wait to have it marketed world wide, because I need a complete aircraft cockpit for my car!
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February 20th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Or you could buy a Toyota Prius, and not only have a HUD, but also get from 40-60mpg…
February 20th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Who would ever want to buy a Prius? Sure, it’s a “hot Hollywood trend” to get one, but then again if you really want to save the planet, buy a Golf diesel. Unless you fancy driving around in a plastic wrapper, which consumes way more fuel than it’s supposed to.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Yes Dave, or you can buy a good car. Well done on that 40-60 mpg, that’s gotta be some kind of record.
February 20th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Hmm, my car already gets 40mpg and costs less than a hybrid, plus has more cargo room. Prius should be getting 80-100 mpg.
February 20th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
The Nissan 240SX had this in 1991.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Marko’s right. Buy the Golf (or Jetta if you prefer traditional looks over hatchback practicality) diesel and don’t end up dumping 120 pounds of environmentally toxic NiMH batteries into a landfill when your car is scrapped or the battery pack gives up the ghost. Plus, you will get a car that handles far better than a Prius and has much better aftermarket support for upgrades (suspension, horsepower, etc.).
February 20th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
My ‘98 Camry used to get 44mpg driving conservatively before I put the roof rack on it. Hybrids really are a joke that allow lead-footed drivers to feel good about their cars. If you really want to know what drives fuel economy - check out http://www.omninerd.com/2006/07/16/articles/57 for the factors affecting fuel efficiency.
This little gadget looks pretty cool. Though I wonder how it will impact on drivers that are just obsessed with gadgets rather than watching the road. I guess kids who grew up on video games will handle it pretty good.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
I have to agree to Matthew about the road attention. There are 2 ideas about this new gadget.
1. that it would prevent you from taking a look on the speedometer, which will prevent you from mistakes while driving (keeping the attention in front - to the road)
2. the projected information might make you look on all the corners of you windshield (some really argued me for saying windscreen) which in fact will distract you.
Which one is right, only time will tell. I just don’t want it to produce any life damages.
Alex
February 20th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Theres more to hybrids than gas milage, their systems just produce less CO2 than another car that gets the same milage. Its all around cleaner.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
All of you are wrong! We should all be using personal rapid transit (PRT) systems instead of driving ourselves around at all. Voila! No more traffic lights, no more jams, car accidents, need to know how fast you are traveling, etc.
And no battery powered landfills.
February 20th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
@Wac Prius could easily get 40-60mpg. And you probably don’t even own a car.
[moderated comment : please do not use bad words on other people]
February 20th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Who cares what the Prius gets? My Volkswagen Jetta TDI get’s 45mpg city and 50mpg highway, and I don’t have lots of goofy electronics to make it difficult to work on. I do most of my own repairs at home.
The lack of spark plugs is a huge bonus, IMHO.
February 20th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Kris how long are we gonna have to wait to get those (PRT)’s. Your an idiot! These people are simply talking about solutions that are available in the next twenty or even thirty years… get back to me on that.
February 20th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
For the record, the Prius has an electronic display, but not a HUD. HUDs are reflective, and use your windshield (or a virtual field beyond it, actually) as a the display area.
VWs have lousy electronics; I’ll never buy another one. Plug-in hybrids and large wind/solar farms are the way to go.
February 20th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
GM has had HUDs on a number of models, even budget ones, since ‘92 (maybe earlier; I know they were around then but not too sure if that was the intro year).
February 21st, 2007 at 2:38 am
HUD was an option on my 1990 Olds Cutlass Supreme… I remember them being available on Buicks and Olds’ from the late 80s…
Also, yes, Prius’ don’t get as high of mileage as they should, but they are classified as PZEV’s… something a diesel-engine car most definitively is not.
Pick your poison… diesel particulant matter exhaust or NIMH batteries…
February 21st, 2007 at 3:11 am
My 1989 Nissan 240SX had this stock.
February 21st, 2007 at 7:55 am
Ill put this in my 88 bronco which gets 8-10 MPG, which leaks oils and runs over kitties.
February 21st, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Or buy a decent European petrol car and still get 40MPG without the particulate emissions of a diesel. A Saab 9000 Aero, perhaps :o)
February 21st, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Prius and hybrids in general are marketing gimmick to make two-bit greenies feel good about themselves and better than everybody else. Get a Civic gasoline, cover the wheels, put skinny tires inflated to 80 lbs, and it will be as economical as a Prius.
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:33 am
Well I hate hybrids but i like this little gizmo. I would like to see full on electric cars come back and get the oil companies out of toying with our Futures. If you want to see something sweet look at Tesla Motors and see their little sports car all Electric that dose 0-60 in about 4 seconds. yeah its pricey but its a big leap in the right direction.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:54 pm
I seem to be able to keep a steady speed by listening to the tone of the engine, wheels, whatever. I have good pitch, and i can tell if I’m traveling at a constant speed.
How did you guys get all off-topic about Prius vs Golf Diesel? This is really yet another thing to buy that you really don’t need. Save your money for lattes.
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Or you can do like this guy and drive 100 miles on a few ounces of water!
http://gadgetcrunch.net/?cat=11
February 24th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
GlobalTop GPS HUD: Nice gadget. MUST have it as soon as possible.
Fuel consumption: As Sven writes: By an Eropean car - a diesel. Any ordinary diesel car (i.e. Ford Focus-size) goes around 45 mpg - and often more than 50 mpg.
Most of my (Danish) friends are unhappy if their car drives less than 45 mpg. My car is a Focus I TDCi - it goes - as Matthew Vea’s 98 Camry - usualy 44 mpg (city). I think that next generation diesel cars should go no less than 50 mpg - increasing during the next decade.
March 4th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Amazing how quickly the posts diverted from actually discussing the product (HUD display) to hybrid cars. More amazingly, instead of just getting back on track (it seems like a neat product, depending on it’s price point and readability in bright sunlight) I’m going to jump into the fray regarding hybrids. First off, the batteries. They get recycled, not dumped. It’s actually illegal to dump ANY battery into a landfill in most states, and that is without getting into Federal laws. Second, relative cost…… Road and Track did a comparison between models of cars available with either a conventional powertrain or a hybrid, and came to the conclusion that it will cost you more to own the hybrid unless you drive it 100-120 thousand miles (depending on model), whereupon you have absorbed the extra cost of the hybrid system, and you will begin to save a miniscule amount of money each mile you drive. Third, usage….. a hybrid is better suited to city and high density traffic patterns than on the highway. Fourth, greenie satisfaction level…. no matter how many times it’s pointed out, blinder wearing greenies will remain convinced that the Prius will save the earth. On the other hand, the technology is pretty neat, and being a tech-head, a hybrid could be a possibility for me. Just not a poky Prius!
Regarding fuel mileage, my 1969 Fiat 850 Sport Coupe also got around 43 MPG when driven frugally. I actually did drive it frugally. Once. For about 10 minutes. Usually I got about 38 MPG.
The Tesla Motors electric sports car is a beautiful car, with advanced technology and engineering, but is, in reality, about as practical as a bikini on Rosie O’donnell.
In closing, regarding hybrids……. remember, trains have been diesel-electric hybrids for decades. The immediate future of hybridization really ought to be in heavy duty trucks, i.e. semis, cement trucks, and the like. But, the higher volume of auto sales will put more units on the road faster, which will allow real world study of the application, enhancing faster improvements to the technology. And, possibly, giving Al Gore a woodie.
March 5th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
[...] Globaltop hat ein Heads-Up-Display entwickelt, das im Auto GPS-Informationen direkt auf die Windschutzscheibe projiziert. Zusätzlich lassen sich eingehende Anrufe des Handys anzeigen, sofern dieses mit einer Bluetooth-Funktion ausgestattet ist oder es kann als Tempomaten eingesetzt werden, der sich bei Geschwindigkeitsüberschreitungen meldet. [...]
October 6th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
1. Prius is Joint top in the UK JD Power car survey
2. Prius is so popular that depreciation is very low, so cost of ownership is low as a consequence in addition to good mpg and world-beatting CO2 output. No other UK production car, of any size outputs as little CO2. CO2 output is the most significant factor in climate change. MPG is much less important.
3. Hybrid is too broad a term to use in an unqualified way. The serial hybrid that is a diesel electric train has very little in common with the much more sophisticated parallel hybrid technology that the Prius uses.
4. The clever technology in the Prius isn’t just the Hybrid transmission, it’s also the engine itself, which uses the Atkinson cycle, which is far more efficient. This is world-beating engineering and no other car manufacturer has yet come near with anything to compete with this. As battery technology imrpoves I predict that this technology will get better and better and may well be come the norm and not the exception.
5. The comment about “goofy electronics” makes no sense. The Prius has an engine management system just the same as any other modern vehicle. It just works differently - and in significant ways, because it’s very elegant engineering and design, the Prius is actually simpler and has less to go wrong than other vehicles. This is borne out by the JD Power ersult, based on the experiences of Prius drivers and the car’s reliability on a large scal and for the last 3 years that the latest version has been in production.
6. Compared with normally-sized Uk cars, the Prius is very roomy, with lots of legroom for rear passengers and a feeling due to its design of uncluttered space. Anyone who talks about the “Poky Prius” makes no sense to me.
7. So by all means hate it, and keep your prejudices, but please don’t claim that your prejudices are reasonable or reasoned.
April 30th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
My mercedes can do 38mpg, my diesel reanult megane can do 40+ mpg but they don’t have a heads up display
January 10th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
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January 30th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
my ford focus do quarter mile in 8.9
January 30th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
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March 5th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
The Nissan 240SX had this in 1991.
May 15th, 2009 at 3:06 am
Thanks for wasting our time talking about the damn Prius and MPG. Some people would actually like reviews on the product.
Thanks!!