I have always been fascinated with airplanes and aviation, which is the reason why I got a degree in Aerospace Engineering. My brother and I are huge fans of military aircraft and one of their features is a heads up display (HUD).
The HUD is an interesting piece of equipment that used to only be available in fighter aircraft, but is now making its way to commercial aircraft. In an airplane, the HUD displays important information to the pilot so that s/he does not have to put his head down to look at his instruments. Some of the information displayed include altitude, roll and pitch angles, angle of attack, airspeed, mach number, and compass direction.
There are HUD systems built into certain cars, but that doesn't help me because I don't have one in my Subaru.
Because of the way I drive, I cannot see the speedometer on my dashboard. This isn't safe to me, but I can't change how I drive, it's too ingrained into my system now.
The main objective of the HUD would be to put the speed of the car and the current RPM to the windshield.
Other information that would be nice to display are: current Lat/Lon, direction (in a similar format to a Fighter HUD system). These are not in the main plan and will only be done if I get a USB GPS system to hook into the system.
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