This is tech from the 50s (and you can find pics of it used in cars), it’s simple, cheap, and improves road safety a lot. I struggle when I have to drive a car without hud (I’ve first seen it irl around I guess 2005, yet not much changed till today, you still either have to pay extra or buy one of the top specs). Govs should just mandate it as a standard.
(There is loads of such tech that work as good as 20 or 30 years ago, are generally cheap in terms of production costs, yet they remain a rarity - adaptive/radar cruise control, adaptive high mean beams, self-levelling low beams, cornering lights, IR cameras spotting & beaming nearby pedestrians and animals, etc. At least EU mandated assisted emergency braking so that the crashes occur at lower speeds or not at all. Megacorps just have to much influence/power/profits.)
My father had a car with that when I was a kid and I still remember how much he loved it.
As someone who’s never had it it’s always seemed like a nice to have and like it’s silly it’s not standard. Though it does look like you can get aftermarket ones at a reasonable price and that is tempting
On my first car I used my phone for that (some Symbian Nokia maybe?).
Didn’t have the battery for it really, and a bit of lag on them old GPS dedicated chips (it fit the dashboard nicely tho), but it proved the concept beautifully.
Yes. They project the text from an angle so it reflects towards the speaker. Just like windows are transparent but can still reflect images in the right lighting.
Yeah I didn’t look that hard, was the first video I found that was sub 3 minutes. They’re all just marketing reels, no one else seems inclined to just upload a quick video on how teleprompters work.
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Even when they’re transparent (left)?
It’s like planes & cars with HUDs on transparent windshields:
I’m not sure why more cars don’t do this, it seems almost all upsides.
Because Elon wants to kill you.
Exactly.
This is tech from the 50s (and you can find pics of it used in cars), it’s simple, cheap, and improves road safety a lot. I struggle when I have to drive a car without hud (I’ve first seen it irl around I guess 2005, yet not much changed till today, you still either have to pay extra or buy one of the top specs). Govs should just mandate it as a standard.
(There is loads of such tech that work as good as 20 or 30 years ago, are generally cheap in terms of production costs, yet they remain a rarity - adaptive/radar cruise control, adaptive high mean beams, self-levelling low beams, cornering lights, IR cameras spotting & beaming nearby pedestrians and animals, etc. At least EU mandated assisted emergency braking so that the crashes occur at lower speeds or not at all. Megacorps just have to much influence/power/profits.)
My father had a car with that when I was a kid and I still remember how much he loved it.
As someone who’s never had it it’s always seemed like a nice to have and like it’s silly it’s not standard. Though it does look like you can get aftermarket ones at a reasonable price and that is tempting
On my first car I used my phone for that (some Symbian Nokia maybe?).
Didn’t have the battery for it really, and a bit of lag on them old GPS dedicated chips (it fit the dashboard nicely tho), but it proved the concept beautifully.
Yes. They project the text from an angle so it reflects towards the speaker. Just like windows are transparent but can still reflect images in the right lighting.
They’re teleprompters crossed with Pepper’s ghost.
Are you telling me these teleprompters are haunted
Any reasonable person would know they are haunted.
And seasoned
Nothing beats el fantasma teleprónter caliente!
Yeah, they’re still reflective enough to mirror the text when viewed from the right angle.
Here’s an example from YouTube so you can see what it looks like from the perspective of the one speaking:
https://youtu.be/BL8KZD9Pnzc
What a shit demonstration. 1 second in the middle shows how it works, the rest is some guy talking.
So…like every youtube video.
Try this one, this guy is great about getting into the nitty gritty.
From the teeny thumbnail, I can tell that’s Technology Connections, and Alex is great for deep dives into random bits of tech.
Anyone interested in pinball machines can find a 3 part series on them, and its sooooo much fun to watch
Yeah I didn’t look that hard, was the first video I found that was sub 3 minutes. They’re all just marketing reels, no one else seems inclined to just upload a quick video on how teleprompters work.