The new model features a screen with higher brightness and wider viewing angles, as well as a unique coating that maintains image clarity when using polarized glasses.
"If a driver wears glasses with a polarizing filter, they protect their eyes from sun glare, but at the same time they are forced to constantly look away from the road, because the image on the head-up display becomes invisible to them," company representatives noted.
The Ford head-up display is a hybrid system that includes a separate polycarbonate screen located behind the instrument panel, onto which the image is projected. To improve data readability, a special multi-layer coating is applied to the surface, which reduces reflections and is used, in particular, in lenses for photographic equipment and glasses.
"Polarized glasses are a real lifesaver for a driver who suffers from glare on water, snow cover, or even on asphalt; they significantly improve visibility. Our head-up display, which debuts on the new Ford Focus, is one of the brightest on the market, with wide viewing angles, and it is perfectly readable in any weather," said Glen Gould, chief engineer of the Focus project.
