Apple Invents an Augmented Reality Windshield

Heads up display showing info from external sensors ... can you spell patent troll children?

That's such a backwards-looking patent in the era of SDC.

People should be filing patents about how to make people more comfortable in what is essentially a moving room, not trying to optimize the driving experience.

People are going to still be driving themselves for a long, long time before “the era of SDC” fully arrives.

Also, I can think of tons of applications of an AR windshield in a self-driving car.

Sounds like a typical patent these days--a vague interface design full of obvious "innovations" and no technical details whatsoever. A lot of "what" and no "how". These are useful for exactly one thing: suing other companies for having the audacity to actually create a working implementation.

Wouldn't every single futuristic sci fi movie with a car in it qualify as preexisting art?

Once we have autonomous vehicles, we can spare the attention to admire the windshield instead of looking at traffic and road signs. We should throw in some good movies, too.

> [...] will even Support FaceTime Calls between Different Vehicles

At first that sounded like a bad idea, but there's an important distinction:

> autonomous vehicle