HUD with Uber

This project is a HUD interface designed for Uber drivers to be used in vehicles. The HUD function is added to the Uber driver's visual field of view, helping them to better view the location and navigation address of orders without bowing their heads.

Process

Challenges

How can we make Uber drivers aware of charts that indicate the general location information of Uber's next order, as well as real-time changes in vehicle information, without affecting their main field of view?

How to make drivers know as much order information as possible without looking down at their phones?

User Research

Target Users

  • This group of people spends a lot of time driving vehicles and picking up passengers every day. HUD pages can help them complete their work more efficiently and safely, reduce distractions when operating their phones, and thus improve their job satisfaction and income.

    Full-time Uber drivers

  • Drivers who have just joined the Uber platform may not be familiar with the single process, navigation and other functions. The HUD page can help novice drivers become more familiar with and adapt to Uber's work mode by providing simple and clear information display and operation methods.

    New drivers

  • The HUD page displays necessary information directly in front of the driver's line of sight, reducing the number of times the driver lowers their head to view navigation devices or mobile phones, thereby significantly reducing safety risks during driving

    Drivers who prioritize safe driving

HUD (head-up display)

A head-up display is an innovative display system. The technology projects information directly into the user’s field of vision and can also take into account parameters such as the user’s viewing direction and head position. As a result, HUDs offer numerous advantages over conventional display technologies such as classic monitors.

How is it work?

While there are some differences between how HUD works depending on the technology used. Nevertheless, they generally always consist of two components, namely an imaging optical unit on the one hand and a projection surface, e.g. the windshield in a car, on the other. The imaging unit has the task of generating the respective information and forwarding it optically as an image, video or 3D animation to the respective projection surface.

Because the process requires this to be both translucent and reflective, the materials used here are primarily glass elements or foils. Users subsequently see the information generated by the imaging unit – or more precisely, the mirrored information – floating in space in their field of view.

Advantages for HUD

- Mostly only very small between 5-10 inches

- 2D and 3D animation can be displayed via virtual information mostly in Full HD but partly also in lower quality.

- Lower depth of information. Virtual information is usually limited to speed, warnings and traffic information.

- The user receives additional information superimposed on the real environment (the street, the sky)

- The information can be perceived WITHOUT AR or VR glasses.

Final

In this car hud project, I have set distance detection and pedestrian status monitoring for pedestrians and other moving vehicles, such as whether pedestrians are moving or not moving.

As the distance between the car and the person gets closer, the border turns yellow and red to warn the driver.

For Uber drivers who have already received passengers and need to take them to their destination, navigation prompts will be set up below the driver's main field of view to facilitate the driver's estimation and judgment of the road section below, as well as directional prompts on the road facing the driver. At the same time, when approaching the destination, approximate directional positioning instructions will appear.

For drivers in an empty order state, we will provide prompts and instructions on the approximate locations and road sections of the two orders closest to the driver pushed by the system. Drivers can choose the next order to receive based on the current road conditions.