Directly in front of the driver was the windshield — high, uncompromisingly erect.
As his eyes adjusted, he saw a star or two high in the windshield, in the spaces between the great still trees overhead.
From the front view, the hood line is too high and the windshield shrinks in the distance.
And, I remember Fluid Drive, push button transmissions, the Slant Six, split windshields, high compression, superheterodyne and the step-down Hudsons.
Three lanes of cars cluttered the road with snow reaching as high as the windshields.
From its high point above the windshield, the roof slopes down to the rear in a straight line.
The self-driving A2 also offers other conceptual features that may or may not be inviting, like full Wi-Fi capability to keep the driver wired during those long hours whiled away in traffic, as well as a touch pad that takes over other baleful tasks, like flashing one's high beams, operating the windshield wipers and finding a decent radio station.
At speed, the system tracks lane markings using a pair of forward-facing stereoscopic cameras that sit mounted high up in the windshield in a housing as bulky as a television cable box.
Then this model is implemented with a user subroutine into the explicit dynamic finite element program LS-DYNA to simulate the dynamic behaviors of PMMA aircraft windshield under high speed bird strike.
Supposedly, mounting gauges this high, just below the windshield, and at the center of the dash, makes drivers pay more attention to the road, but if you're conditioned to look in front of your hands for this information, you're going to look there first anyway, then over at the gauges, and then back to the road.
