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...