Forget Large Screen Dashboards, Hyundai Will Give You a Full Windscreen Display!

In the past few years there has been the battle of the ever larger in-car screen, now a new feature to be introduced by Hyundai’s Mobis has the potential to completely replace the traditional instrument cluster by making the entire windscreen (windshield to some of you) into a combined cluster and infotainment system.

I believe, and I could be wrong, that the current champ of the in-car display screen is the Cadillac Escalade who tout the size of their 55-inch screen over their rivals Lincoln Navigator’s measly 48-inch screen. The size of your screen has been something to boast about for some time now, boys will be boys huh?

Up to now though all screens have been just that, a screen mounted on the dashboard. The new Hyundai variant will make all the others pale into insignificance though as they look to circumvent the need for ever larger screens that do little to augment the design of the cabin.

Hyundai have partnered with optics geniuses Zeiss, who are more famous for camera lenses to create what they are calling a “holographic windshield display”.  The system effectively creates a massive and high-tech heads-up display across the entire windscreen that has the potential to replace the instrument cluster, infotainment system and front passenger display.

According to various reports I have read this new tech which sounds very sci-fi and close to becoming a reality the system projects information onto the screen allowing drivers to access multiple data-points without the need to take their eyes off the road. I wonder how distracting it will become?