Watching the road is SO nineties...
Fed up with the constant backchat from your front seat passenger while deftly undertaking essential high-speed manoeuvres? Thanks to Mercedes you’ll soon be able to distract them from your highway heroics with a calming dose of their favourite soap.
The Mercedes SPLITVIEW system comes with a set of headphones so you don’t have to listen to ’Stenders yourself. Instead you are left to concentrate on piloting your S-class free from the whining tones of Bianca Jackson – or ‘significant others’ – with only the satnav offering helpful advice.
SPLITVIEW will be launched in the S-Class next summer, and basically allows two different images to be shown on the same 8ins screen. It works by projecting two different images simultaneously on an LCD screen using adjacent pixels, while an overlaying filter masks one set of pixels or the other depending on where you are seated.
So while the passenger idly whiles away the motorway hours with DVDs, TV or music videos, the driver still has access to all the information from the Mercedes COMAND control and display system.
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