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I recently got back into regularly riding (I now regularly commute to/from work on my motorcycle) and I completely agree. However, I absolutely would love to have a HUD, but not anything people keep thinking you need a HUD for. A decent GPS unit + bluetooth or smartphone + bluetooth is good enough for those "I got lost, now need to get home" rides. I don't want any sort of communication provided on it. I want a real HUD, giving me real time, easily interpreted information about what's going on around me.

I envision something closer to aircraft/fighter aircraft HUDs:

  * Roll indicator
  * "target indicator" (in this case, any non-stationary object).  Can be as simple as a diamond shape near the center of the detected target
  * Visual indicator of direction/speed of the target (something like a line from the diamond as a 3d projection for where the diamond will be in 4 seconds based on current speed/direction)
  * Similar direction/speed indicator for you

If done with thin lines (like all the aircraft huds), all the same color, it presents a substantial amount of useful information in an easy to process/digest way without being overly distracting. But, definitely not an easy problem to solve, it's just what I'd like to see.

All of the HUDs I see coming out (Google glass included) seem geared towards providing you information to distract you from what you're doing, not enhance it, which is the opposite of what I want.