VIDEO: Navigation Screens Be Damned, THIS Is The Way Of The FUTURE

One of 001's favorite things about modern cars is their ability to showcase new technology. Some of it is a bit more experimental than others, but that's an aside.

The latest to come from the wizards at the very prestigious MIT is a car that has one of the coolest things we've seen in sometime. Rather than rely on a dash-mounted, center stack screen, why not rely on a bigger area?

001 always remarks how he loves BMW's widescreen set up since it provides more information. Well, then 001 is going to LOVE this:

Why not use your entire dashboard as an interactive map? It's definitely larger than your standarfd navigation screen, widescreen or not.

With that said, we're a little curious: would you favor technology like this OR is it too distracting?

Back in 2009, we wrote about a little robotic dashboard companion called AIDA (for Affective Intelligent Driving Agent), an MIT creation that essentially read a driver’s facial expressions to gauge mood and inferred route and destination preferences through social interaction with the driver. Apparently that was deemed too distracting, so now MIT is back with AIDA 2.0, which swaps the dashboard robot for a massive 3-D interactive map that covers the entire dashboard--because that’s not distracting at all...

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motor1 - 5/6/2011 3:42:38 AM

+9 Boost

I can't see that working too well, with that much clutter. It's too distracting. People shouldn't be worrying about making dinner reservations whilst they are on the road.

veyron1001 - 5/6/2011 7:35:51 AM

+3 Boost

but but but pulling over on the side of the road to make a reservation is too time consuming.

chewy - 5/6/2011 7:04:46 PM

+2 Boost

Agreed, looks too annoying. Standard HUDs haven't proven to be too popular.

uaw_lax - 5/6/2011 3:47:08 AM

+6 Boost

Way to distracting will not work for the average driver.

veyron1001 - 5/6/2011 7:34:59 AM

+7 Boost

not average, any driver

giants10 - 5/6/2011 4:41:01 AM

+5 Boost

As if drivers are not bad enough already, lets make them even more distracted.

Joe_Limon - 5/6/2011 10:05:43 AM

+4 Boost

ditch the pop up stuff while you are driving that distracts, and keep the map with the location markers and you have a cool system.

PlanB - 5/6/2011 11:16:38 AM

+4 Boost

Looks cool, but yeah, way too distracting.

Ferrari365P - 5/6/2011 11:22:50 AM

+4 Boost

The visualization is busy and yet it's missing one thing -- the wreck ahead that you're about to get into.

A heads-up holographic display of simple, line drawn arrows that are superimposed over the actual streets are all that's needed.

JRobUSC - 5/6/2011 1:49:48 PM

+3 Boost

When he made that first right hand turn, I was so busy watching the buildings spin that I would have run head on into the truck that was coming from that direction.

theoptimisticpessimist - 5/6/2011 6:50:39 PM

+2 Boost

Perhaps Audi worst idea ever.