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What is one feature you hope Scout will include that has not yet been shown?

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I find HUDs distracting. Just because your eyes are forward doesn't mean you're focused or paying attention to the world ahead of you. And that something is always flickering and changing in them encourages you check them out repeatedly for no reason.

That said, I haven't tried out Mercedes augmented reality HUD/Nav where they display the nav arrows onto the actual roads. It seems like that'd be great for navigating around new places.

What also would be great is a nav system that notes what you're doing so it can anticipate what you're about to do, like a real copilot would. For example, if you're slowing down to take a turn, but instead of the correct street it looks like your setting up to turn off too soon, it might interject "not this one, but the next", just like a real person might.
 
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Albal said:
I find HUDs distracting. Just because your eyes are forward doesn't mean you're focused or paying attention to the world ahead of you. And that something is always flickering and changing in them encourages you check them out repeatedly for no reason.

That said, I haven't tried out Mercedes augmented reality HUD/Nav where they display the nav arrows onto the actual roads. It seems like that'd be great for navigating around new places.

What also would be great is a nav system that notes what you're doing so it can anticipate what you're about to do, like a real copilot would. For example, if you're slowing down to take a turn, but instead of the correct street it looks like your setting up to turn off too soon, it might interject "not this one, but the next", just like a real person might.
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As someone who does that, that would be amazing. Whenever I have my maps going and telling me directions I always think about that episode of the Office where Michael follows the directions and drives into the lake.
 
cyure said:
As someone who does that, that would be amazing. Whenever I have my maps going and telling me directions I always think about that episode of the Office where Michael follows the directions and drives into the lake.
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I had to look that one up! :)

 
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Badams said:
Just type in the address and it will drive you there.
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Type? Way too much work. Just say it. Or better yet, it should just know. And if it guesses wrong and takes you somewhere you didn’t want to go, it’s an adventure!
 
Scoutsie said:
All the times in the car of LEO LOOK OUT right before my dad nearly rear ended someone and then got super defensive about it or argued with my mom when the HUD navigation prompt in his line of sight could have solved it (or he could have ignored it completely as he often did because my dad insisted that his knowledge of local roads was better than the on-board GPS, which it was in terms of practical local knowledge like “this area has a lot of college students that behave like they have never encountered a car before and are oblivious of their capacity to do damage to the human body” and whatnot). The couple of seconds your eyes drift down to check speed or something not in your line of sight is all the time it takes to hit something (driver’s ed made a big deal of that). I am better for the HUD in my car telling me the speed and when to turn.
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When I saw “LEO” all I could think was that your dad somehow managed to launch the car into Low Earth Orbit
 
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