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Did you get the license plate number of that truck? Can you read what that sign up ahead says? If not, that's no problem. Just activate the magnifying windshield and see things as far as the horizon.
The windshield is made up of a dual-pane flexible polymer that can bend and contract in order to refract
the images ahead of you. When the driver activates it using the handy-dandy lever on the center of the dash, he can dial in the magnification settings to his preference. The flexing of the panes is completely transparent to the driver except for the magnified view.
Something like this ought to do the trick.
http://www.guardian...glasses-josh-silver
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What do you mean, "activate" it? How do you activate magnification? How do you deactivate it later? You gotta tell us how this works, or it's magic. Or a WIBNI. |
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Also, it appears, based on a snippet from a summary bar under a link on a Google results page, that it's baked, at least in aviation: |
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//I defy you, unless you have got the triple magnifying windscreen available from SpecSavers and the F-15 was standing still! ...// |
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I opened the link, but couldn't find that quote, so I don't know the context of the statement. |
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The windshield can bend and contract in order to refract the images ahead of you. |
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Ah.... Gotcha. You gotta put that sort of detail in the post, Scotty! It's not an idea without it. So it mechanically bends. And that, I can say after a very extensive internet search, is most definitely not baked. And a very good idea, in my humble opinion. One suggestion I'd make, however, is to put the lever either on the door, near the window controls and lock switch, or in the center console, near the audio controls. That would limit the distance you have to reach, allowing you to maintain better control of the vehicle. I'd also suggest a spring on the lever, so it automatically rights itself when you let go of it. This would prevent accidents caused by distorted depth perception if you forgot to demagnify it after getting that plate number. |
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I like this, it would be like the viewscreen on the Enterprise. |
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//And that, I can say after a very extensive internet search, is most definitely not baked.//
And I can say, after a not-very extensive brain search, that it is.
Anyone remember the spectacles that could be customised by filling or emptying the space between their lenses' hollow, flexible surfaces with a clear liquid? |
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I'd be worried about using this on a sunny day - or leaving it parked and them coming back to find a smoking ruin - could this be a ploy by revenge motivated insects? |
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+ better than putting on glasses! |
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Steven Wright did a bit on this - "Oh my God! Look at the
size of that guy's head!" |
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The polymer would scratch quickly. That's why all
windscreens have glass coatings. |
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Also, judging actual distance is pretty important to driving. |
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"Objects in the windshield may be closer than they appear" |
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Or they very well could appear closer than they are. |
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