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| Time: 13:50 EST/18:50 GMT | News Source: New Scientist | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner | ||
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Using in-car satellite navigation on unfamiliar roads, in bad weather or in heavy traffic can be a bore. But soon it could be as simple as following the car ahead, if a patent filed recently by Microsoft takes off. Instead of studying an on-screen map or listening to spoken instructions, the system lets a driver pursue a cartoon car projected onto the windscreen in front of them. The navigation system checks a car’s location and calculates a route in the usual way, but the driver follows the ghost car as if it were the leader of a convoy. The on-screen car could also convey traffic and weather information by changing colour or size. And its ghostly cartoon character should make it sufficiently distinguishable from real cars and traffic as seen through the windscreen, the patent says. | ||
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| #1 By 992 (81.159.223.148) at 8/17/2005 1:58:17 PM |
| This sounds dangerious to me, like what if the system crashes? |
| #2 By 415 (69.67.200.50) at 8/17/2005 2:07:00 PM |
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Like the ghost car (and HUD) disappears, and you drive the car like you always have.
Just like if your Pioneer CD deck crashes, driving may suck without tunes, but you can still drive! LOL |
| #3 By 8556 (12.217.170.92) at 8/17/2005 3:21:48 PM |
| I hope no one that ever gets this system follows a car with a suicidal driver. |
| #4 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 8/17/2005 4:38:20 PM |
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AWGuys...
Do you allow this sort of thing here? I'm suprised to see it: http://www.anetforums.com/posts.aspx?ThreadIndex=33245 Now, with that said, I'd like to take the opportunity to eat a (very small) portion of crow... It's no secret I absolutely despise Product Activation (and not because I copy software). I hate it because it's a pain in the ass sometimes (not just Microsoft), it leaves the user without recourse if a company goes out of business (it's happened already in at least one case), and a manufacture can (and it will eventually happen) force upgrades this way. In other words, the ability for a product you paid for can be taken away from you without recourse. With that said... My hats off to Microsoft. Here's why: My Windows 2003 Enterprise Server I use at home has been running for 24/7 for like 5 years (with Win2K server previosly, of course). The 7 drives totalling about 500GB were getting tired and without redundancy of any kind, I was getting a bit concerned, though there were no failures. So I decided to build a new Raid-5 and put it in. I had been using an old ASUS A7V133 motherboard that has served well, and truthfully still does. But that model board has always been picky about PCI resources and sharing, so I decided to put in a spare ABIT IT7-Max2 with a P4 2.53Ghz I had in the closet left over when I upgraded to Athlon-64 on my main desktop. I didn't want any troubles with the RAID card. So, put in to my Lian-Li PC70 Case the following: The ABIT IT7-Max2. The Pentium 4 2.53Ghz. A 120GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 IDE for the Boot/Windows 2003 Server OS (replacing the old 60GB). Six Seagate 300GB 7200.8 SATA's (yeah, I'm a nutcase) for the Raid-5 Array. A 3Ware 9500S-8 eight port hardware SATA RAID card. New 550 Watt supply to feed it all. The RAID card is actually a 64-Bit PCI-X card (of course), but it works fine in a 32-Bit/33Mhz slot. It is set to stripe 5 of the drives across a RAID-5 unit, with the 6th as a hot-spare for automatic fall-over in case of a failure. This resulted in a Raid-5 Unit of 1.09TB after overhead. Now, here is the interesting part. I reinstalled Windows 2003 Enterprise Server (clean, of course) onto the new 120GB IDE. And then tried to activate... The damned thing activated with no complaints. I swore with all the hardware I changed, I would have pissed off Product Activation and a call to Microsoft was in my future. I tip my hat to Microsoft for a change. That was unexpected. TL This post was edited by TechLarry on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at 16:40. |
| #5 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 8/17/2005 5:45:55 PM |
| For what are you using all those drives? Video stuff? How do you like the 3Ware card? |
| #6 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 8/17/2005 7:31:03 PM |
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My car already has the HUD; among other info when I use the navigation system it shows where to turn, the distance to the cross etc. and it is extremely useful. When I drive my wife's car that does not have the HUD I miss it. I hope it will become a standard feature in every car.
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| #7 By 13030 (198.22.121.120) at 8/18/2005 10:35:30 AM |
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Just one more thing to justify a higher price in a commodity product. Just one more thing to fail after the warranty expires.
How the h3ll did we all drive to our destinations without these navigational crutches 20 years ago? |
| #8 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 8/19/2005 7:21:13 PM |
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Folks,
It's strictly a file server. All my media, CD ISO's, backups, etc... It add's up :) I also want to convert about 1/3 of my substantial (over 500) DVD library to online access using Nero Digital. Also remember, a 6 drive 1.8TB array turns into a 1.09TB array right off the bat when you figure in true drive size (300GB drives ain't really 300GB), RAID-5 Parity overhead and the fact that one of the drives is an online ready-spare. And to be honest, it was fun to build :) I like the 3Ware card. I just breezed through the instructions and the setup was intuitive enough for me to get it done. -Larry |
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