Microsoft Patents the "Phantom Car"
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Invention: The phantom car
Invention: The phantom car
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New Scientist reports on a very cool sounding invention/patent registered by Microsoft: The Phantom Car
It's an in-car navigation system that does away with maps and so forth, replacing them with a cartoon car that displays on your windshield for you to follow - bad weather, poor visibility? Just follow the guy in front!
New Scientist reports on a very cool sounding invention/patent registered by Microsoft: The Phantom Car
It's an in-car navigation system that does away with maps and so forth, replacing them with a cartoon car that displays on your windshield for you to follow - bad weather, poor visibility? Just follow the guy in front!
Using in-car satellite navigation on unfamiliar roads, in bad weather or in heavy traffic can be a bore. But soon it could be as simple as following the car ahead, if a patent filed recently by Microsoft takes off.
Instead of studying an on-screen map or listening to spoken instructions, the system lets a driver pursue a cartoon car projected onto the windscreen in front of them. The navigation system checks a car’s location and calculates a route in the usual way, but the driver follows the ghost car as if it were the leader of a convoy.
You've just gotta love that kind of tech eh?
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lets hope it doesn't blue screen huh?
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I bet downloading patches and updates for that would be fun :(
"Microsoft today released 17 critical updates for ThePhantomCar..." etc etc
Cool
Good idea, never liked having to look down to check maps.
Re: patches, loads of people already use microsoft pocketpc based satnav products
If Microsoft built cars
If Microsoft built cars
Great Idea, BUT
if only that dad-gum phantom car in front of me would turn off it's signal that's been on for the last ten miles!
LOL Gurtie
BWOD - Blue Windscreen Of Death
I can see the law suits now
I can see the law suits now - as the car takes a wrong turn over an abandoned broken bridge when the driver is using an old CD.
phantom road rage
My fear is that after I tailgate the phantom car for hours on end, its driver would stop, get out, and beat the hell out of me with a tire iron.