Navdy Heads-up Display

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If you drive a car and own a smartphone there's a really good chance that you have been distracted while driving a 1000 Kgs box of death down the highway at 40 Km per hour even something as innocent as using your phone for navigation can take your eyes off the road for seconds at a time which any high school driving teacher will tell you is seconds too long.

Navdy has set out to solve that problem with a heads-up display that feeds you all the information you could ever need while keeping your eyes firmly where they belong on the road.

The navdy heads-up display is the right way to not to distract from the roads. I just want to say that heads-up displays are really cool floating the information that you need on the road before you is really fun adding in a ton of other features and usability makes it even cooler.

So, let's talk about the hardware there are four basic components that make this work the connector cable, the mount the nav tee itself and the app yes the navdy does run off of an app we'll talk about that later the connector cable connects directly to the ODB port of your car it draws power and information from the cars system in one cable more on that later as well the navdy unit comes with three mounting options short, medium and tall the Navdy is supposed to be positioned so that the bottom of the lens is right on line with where the road meets your hood in car.

You can use the medium mount it was still a bit too short but the tall mount the unit firmly in the road.

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There are tools to do everything, once done the navdy connects with a hook and magnet system that attaches to the mount you also need to connect the dial to your steering wheel download the app and you're ready to roll the navdy uses your phone to connect in search for destination it also uses here Maps technology when the unit goes offline plus after a few minutes the on board GPS kicks in and the navdy can run phone free this is good for two reasons it's a self-contained unit that benefits from a phone connection but doesn't require at all times and it frees your phone from having to have the screen on and the GPS going which leads to better battery life for your phone on a long trip the dial on the steering wheel allows you to perform various actions with your thumb zoom in and zoom out change settings and even accomplish some simple tasks such as starting and stopping music and podcasts many of the menus can be configured to your taste different clocks different gauges whatever works for you as mentioned the navdy connects directly to your car's system which allows for some neat tricks first and foremost even when not navigating I tend to look at the navigate dashboard instead of the actual dashboard it's just right there and it's a little addictive plus when your car's fuel tank reaches 15% navdy will automatically ask you if you want to navigate to a gas station and adds it as a stop on your route this is simply delightful.

The software on the navdy app is very functional it allows you to adjust settings on the display itself and it also allows you to search for directions and keeps a running tab in your progress as you drive your route it can't replace Google Maps from Google assistant.

Sometimes when setting the navdy into the cradle the pins don't connect right away so you have to fiddle with it a bit to get it to connect also when using the medium or tall mountain the navigate as a tendency to vibrate a lot at first it's all you can see but eventually you do get used to it adjusting the lens can be a little frustrating for those OCD users who like to have things perfectly centered it always seems to be a bit too far back or a bit too far forward the whole unit has a sort of aftermarket which might be off-putting for some peoples but it's an aftermarket accessory.

Finally we get to the price the navigate is pretty costly of $400 that's a lot of money to invest into a souped-up navigation system I mean if you're watching this you have a phone with maps on it there are dash board mounting systems available for $10 on Amazon throw enough power cable for your phone in your set so why is the heads-up display worth it in a word safety having the information that you're looking for whether it's your route your car's gauges or even your podcast player hovering on the road is a lot safer than a dash mounted phone can fall or overheat or lose their charge or distract you with Facebook and to be fair that empty can do some of that too but by default it's turned off and even if it does you're already looking at the road greatly improving the chances of you noticing something bad happening right in front of you but aside from the fact that it's really cool to show off to your friends safety is your number one and probably number two reason to pick this up is safety worth the price I'll be honest it's right on the bubble overall.

This is a futuristic look at how many cars we'll be driving in the future some cars already have them but yours probably doesn't and this is a very solid offering in the aftermarket heads-up display space that does a ton of things right if you have the means to add a heads-up display to your car this is one of the first you should look

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Technical Details

Display Size	3.70 Inches
Voice Command	Buttons, Touchscreen
Item Weight	245 g
Product Dimensions	32.1 x 61 x 2.5 cm
Item model number	NVD150-WEE