On April motor show in New York debuts five-meter Lincoln Continental with the projective display working on DLP technologies. The prices of a sedan vary from $44 720 to $59 340 depending on the engine (305, 335 or 400 h.p.) .
P the royektion on a windshield completes not all cars though technology of this it is a lot of years. It came from aircraft ― the first prototypes of similar system specialists of management of Naval Forces of United States of America developed in 1955. Since April of the 1958th HUD (head-up display) began to use serially on a deck attack plane of Blackburn Buccaneer of royal navy United Kingdom. And 30 years later the technology came to the automobile world. The pioneer became General Motors, equipped with a projector the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme model of 1988. Now HUD systems continue to evolve . The next branch of this development ― a DLP projector over which Ford work.
by the First Japanese car equipped with a projection to a windshield, became Nissan 240SX which were issued from 1989 to 1994. For the first time on the European model such equipment established in 2003 ― it there was a sedan BMW the fifth series with the E60 index.
Po to words of experts Ford Motor Co., they work on the projective display of new generation side by side with people from the Texas Instruments company, whose a name engineer Larry Hornbek in 1987 and developed DLP technology. Americans say that it will be the largest projective display in the industry and it will be possible to bring detailed indications of the dashboard, the audio system, navigation to it, adaptive cruise control, monitoring of blind zones and deduction system in a lane. And the flagman sedan Lincoln Continental becomes the first car in Ford's family with a DLP projector.