When cars were still generously glazed
12/17/2014
The late 1960s and 1970s will go down in automotive history as the era in which cars were particularly generously glazed. Some vehicles offered an almost perfect all-round view, the A, B and C pillars were thin and hardly obstructed the view.
Since then, these pillars have grown and become increasingly thicker in favor of accident safety. Today, a B-pillar can be as much as 10 cm wide or even thicker, and the A-pillar, which is critical for observation in the front area, often obscures a few degrees of the viewing angle in modern cars.
It is therefore fitting that Jaguar is proposing "transparent vehicle pillars" with the "360 Virtual Urban Windscreen", in which real-time cameras display environmental information on the roof pillars that would otherwise remain hidden due to the body structure.
We can also guess where this will lead. Why install windows in a car at all when reality could be projected much better onto a white surface using intelligently positioned cameras, virtual reality and other computer-based processes? Perhaps the car of the future will no longer have real windows, who knows?
Until then, and hopefully beyond, we can enjoy classic cars such as the Fiat 124 Coupé, Morris 1100 or VW K 70, which still made driving easier with large windows ...
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