{"id":16942,"date":"2015-09-05T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/apple-may-be-bringing-fighter-jet-technology-to-car-windshields"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:43:07","slug":"apple-may-be-bringing-fighter-jet-technology-to-car-windshields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/apple-may-be-bringing-fighter-jet-technology-to-car-windshields","title":{"rendered":"Apple may be bringing fighter-jet technology to car windshields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-may-be-bringing-fighter-jet-technology-to-car-windshields.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One Apple analyst says that it\u2019s \u201cvery likely\u201d the company is working on a head-up display (HUD) for car windshields. The technology, which is currently used in jets, would project icons and information onto the windshield, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-switch\/wp\/2015\/08\/13\/apple-might-be-bringing-fighter-jet-technology-to-car-windshields\/\">Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry said that the launch of the device is \u201cnot imminent,\u201d and he seems to be the only analyst predicting Apple\u2019s entry into the head-up display space. Plus, Chowdhry has <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2013\/07\/07\/how-wrong-headed-can-one-apple-analyst-be\/\">frequently read<\/a> Apple\u2019s tea leaves inaccurately.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimers aside, it\u2019s not entirely unlikely that Apple is developing a high-tech answer to the distracting nature of a car dashboard. Apple does seem to be developing an all-electric minivan that may be self-driving under the codename \u201cProject Titan,\u201d according to reports by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/apples-titan-car-project-to-challenge-tesla-1423868072\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>. And since HUDs on windshields are already being touted by the auto industry as the next big thing, it\u2019s reasonable Apple would want the technology in its potential car.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2015\/08\/13\/apple-hud-car-windshields\/?xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_FORTUNE\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Apple analyst says that it\u2019s \u201cvery likely\u201d the company is working on a head-up display (HUD) for car windshields. The technology, which is currently used in jets, would project icons and information onto the windshield, according to the Washington Post. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry said that the launch of the device is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64294,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942\/revisions\/64294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}