Goodbye to screens: Huawei unveils its digital windscreen

The screen war is at its peak. Some manufacturers want to keep introducing screens, ever larger and with greater prominence for controlling different elements of the car. Others, on the other hand, want to return to physical controls, which are more intuitive and easier to access. But Huawei breaks away from both and presents another option: a digital windscreen.

This new gadget has been developed by Huawei Mobis together with the company Zeiss. This new windscreen display is designed to replace the instrument cluster, the infotainment system and the driver’s display. All of this is replaced by information projected onto the windscreen.

In this way, all the information can be seen clearly and precisely in front of the driver, without them having to take their eyes off the road. A great deal of information can be displayed on the windscreen, which can be checked with a simple glance and without taking attention away from driving.

This development may be ready for the system to go into series production and be fitted to cars in 2027. Specifically, the system is based on a projector located in the dashboard and a cover placed on the inside of the windscreen, onto which the data is projected.

The size of this film onto which the images are projected is only 100 microns, which makes it thinner than a human hair. For now, the beneficiaries of this system are expected to be the group’s two major brands, Hyundai and Kia. But they do not intend to stop at this market, and it will also be available to other brands.

Hyundai claims that by 2030 there could be at least seven million cars that could potentially carry this new system. For now, we don’t even know whether this system will succeed and become a standard in many models. What is certain is that it will help make cabin designs cleaner and more minimalist, by eliminating components that are replaced by this holographic projection.