San Diego Students develop Auto-dimming Windscreen device
You might surely have felt ill at ease many times with the sunlight while driving at the morning or evening hours. It’s not only annoying but disturbs your concentration as well. So far all you could do to get rid of the sun burning holes in your.
You might surely have felt ill at ease many times with the sunlight while driving at the morning or evening hours. It’s not only annoying but disturbs your concentration as well. So far all you could do to get rid of the sun burning holes in your eyes is to just flip down your sun visor or wear your sun glasses. But these don’t fully solve the problem either.
However, two San Diego students: Aaron Schild and Rafael Cosman have come up with the solution at the Intel’s 2010 International Science and Engineering Fair. The duo has fixed a Toyota Prius with the electro-chromic panels that dim when the voltage is applied.
With the help of ultrasonic range finder that could track the driver’s position and a VGA webcam which measures the light coming through, the amazing device dims the sections liable to cause the most eyestrain, instead of darkening the whole windscreen.
It’ll surely help driver to avoid the sun light at a crucial times but will not halt the scenic view of the occupants as only some portions will be darken with respect to driver’s positions. The electro-chromic segments costs $0.25 per square inch but has a drawback for it works slowly.
Via: Engadget
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