GPS Car Heads Up Display (Car HUD) $59 with Free Shipping (Usually $99) @ Kogan

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  hotmustardsauce on 17/01/2018 - 12:35

  would be more useful if it projected your desired destination based on gps/google maps.

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  newxr on 17/01/2018 - 12:43

  If you have a bright old android phone there are many free apps that will do the same thing. They work better at night though.

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  nothommus on 17/01/2018 - 12:51

  +1

  I dont really get this, youre still kinda taking your eyes off the road because you still have to refocus on the speed readout. Surely its just as bad as flicking your eyes down?

  Maybe the answer is Australia stops having such a strict policy against creeping a few km over and people would be more focused on the road…

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    scrimshaw on 17/01/2018 - 12:52

    This is to mimic the HUD display on fighter planes — some of the flashier high end cars have HUD built into the dash.

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      nothommus on 17/01/2018 - 12:53

      Yeah i get that - but youre still taking your eyes away from the road to focus on the speed readout. Unless your depth of field you can see is much better than mine.

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        Tihocan on 17/01/2018 - 13:09

        +1

        For one, it minimises the refocus - you can (for the most part) still see a decent speed readout without looking directly at it.
        Second, if you focus on the HUD you can still see the road to some extent, allowing you to react to a sudden change in the environment. Something you cannot do looking down at the dash, (most commonly) behind your steering wheel.

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        [Deactivated] on 17/01/2018 - 13:14

        Cars with built in HUD will project it so that it appears like it's 2m away, significantly reducing the refocus distance.

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        lafriel on 17/01/2018 - 15:07

        @Tihocan: I hope I don't sound pretentious, but although the environment is within your field of view, it would be difficult to actually see any changes in it if your focus is directed to something else (such as the HUD). There have been plenty of studies on inattentional blindness, but one in particular I'd like to mention is by Haines (A breakdown in simultaneous information processing, 1991), who examined how experienced pilots are affected by a HUD in an aircraft simulator. Pilots were found to focus and rely on the HUD to assist in landing onto the runway, but in doing so, they had often failed to detect any obvious changes in the environment, such as a large oncoming airplane obstructing the runway on course for collision. Even though the plane was within field of view, is highly relevant and should have triggered a response from the trained pilots, it didn't; their attentions were focused on the HUD to land "successfully". This suggests that just because you can see something, does not mean you will notice it as our attention is limited to what we focus on.

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        Tihocan on 17/01/2018 - 15:28

        @lafriel: Not pretentious at all, and I'm interested enough to look further (later).
        I admit this comes via assumptions from personal experience, of using a phone to display my speed and such to the right of my windshield. Maybe it's not universal, or it may have even been a biased conclusion that it was easier.

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    ocoolio on 17/01/2018 - 14:50

    Maybe the answer is Australia stops having such a strict policy against creeping a few km over and people would be more focused on the road…

    I find this a major concern here. Everyone is so obsessed with making sure they aren't "speeding" (aka 5km over the limit) that a large portion of the driver's attention is spend on the speedometer instead on the traffic.
    It's a non-issue pretty much anywhere else in the world.

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  scrimshaw on 17/01/2018 - 12:51

  You can get something like this cheaply from Chinese stores for under $20 AUD. Have a look around on Gearbest or BangGood and even eBay.

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  blackjacknz on 17/01/2018 - 12:54

  "Many new, high-end vehicles are being built with head up displays"

  and my not so high end ute ;)

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    PVA on 17/01/2018 - 13:00

    +1

    And the Nissan bluebird in the 80s 90s.

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  parker2004au on 17/01/2018 - 13:07

  I ended up getting a sticky dash mat and using Sygic to do something similar - used it about twice once I missed features Waze offered.

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  aussie mark on 17/01/2018 - 13:34

  Kogan have another unit, the OBD2 (or OBDII) Usually $99 but now $49 so $10 cheaper than this deal. the OBD2 seems to provide more info but only if your car has a 16pin diagnostic port

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    steveb123 on 17/01/2018 - 13:47

    link?

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      Tihocan on 17/01/2018 - 13:59

      +1

      OBD II Car Head Up Display

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        parkies on 17/01/2018 - 22:00

        The speed will match your dash, so may not be as accurate as GPS determined?

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        Tihocan on 17/01/2018 - 23:49

        @parkies: potentially. Assuming a GPS device with decent sensors and software/firmware (likely), and little in the way of interference, I think it would be more accurate. I've heard the speedo is usually set higher than actual, but that's not my area of expertise.

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  frozenkuku on 17/01/2018 - 13:37

  old nissan sil80 got this built in

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  ocoolio on 17/01/2018 - 14:28

  +2

  Interesting gimmick, but doesn't actually make you a safer driver, mostly because of the Inattentional blindness effect: doesn't matter where you are looking as long as you aren't paying attention to the road.

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  rattle on 17/01/2018 - 15:28

  Thought these were a bit of a gimmick, but after maybe 18 months, I'm totally sold on them and will continue to use them.

  I have the Supacheap Auto version in one car and my Sygic in HUD mode in my main car and they are great. Obviously different info on each, but you know what I mean…

  At night, the projection appears outside the window, ahead of me a bit, like a hologram, especially with Sygic and I can see my speed with peripheral vision (lower left of windscreen). Not too concerned about speed as I live and work out in the country and sit on the cruise control 95% of the time, but it's handy to have a quick glance at times to see relevant info.

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  Elyxar on 17/01/2018 - 18:45

  My Navdy was admittedly distracting at first but now I wouldn't live without it.

  Aldi had a HUD not that long ago for $50

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    BigLeviathan on 17/01/2018 - 23:05

    Wow, how much did you pay for your navdy?

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  BigLeviathan on 17/01/2018 - 23:04

  The review on Kogan site looks fishy because some of them haven't even opened it (why would they review it then?!)