I had an idea. I was driving around downtown San Diego the other night. Peds everywhere, it was dark, I was looking for street parking and getting frustrated. It wasn’t easy to keep track of what was around me, particularly in my blind spots.
Here’s my idea. Put proximity sensors around your car, perhaps one on each corner. Format the readings into a two-dimensional visualization of your car and its surroundings from a bird’s eye view. Project it onto the lower left corner of the windshield, available for quick glances. Install a tracking camera in the dash to read the location of the driver’s eyes, and adjust the windshield display to the driver’s perspective. Then you’ll always know when someone’s lurking in your blind spot when you decide to grab the parking spot two lanes over.