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The company is still refining some of the features that will be included in the Hudway OS but hope to avoid any delays. The Hudway Drive unit will ship nearly identical to the model we were able to experience in July or August of 2017. This feature and the gesture controls are still in final testing and will likely require continued updates to help refine after launch.

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This driver awareness system will give a warning if it senses that the driver falling is asleep or being distracted and factor these instances into the overall driver score. We were unable to test the driver awareness features, but the front-facing camera should help track motions and keep a driver alert to the road. This type of customization was a nice feature and is something you may not find in a modern OEM vehicle head-up displays. In our test drive we set the speedometer front and center, the navigation on the left, and the fuel economy on the right. With these controls you can adjust the left, right, and center display to show the most relevant information to the driver. The steering wheel mounted controls are simple to use and contain five buttons that activate voice control, the menu, and inputs for back, left and right control. The built-in navigation system seems like a refined version of the Hudway mobile app and is easy to read at a glance with this new display. This worked well in our drive and avoids some of the distractions we have seen in other systems that seem to be positioned right on the dashboard. In addition to being controlled by gestures and vocal commands, the Hudway Drive includes button control attached to the steering wheel This makes the information seem further out in front of the hood on your vehicle, positioned so that your eyes stay on the road. The team at Hudway developed the heads up display information to have a focal distance of 8.2 feet. In addition to a brief demo of the product, we took a short test drive with Ivan Klabukov to see how the Hudway Drive performs in real-life conditions. This helps to avoid downloading large map files of entire cities or even States that are unnecessary on most trips.

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Ivan let us know that the updated navigation system intelligently downloads only the areas along your route for offline navigation.

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Navigation would be the primary use for data and the Hudway Drive system does offer the ability to download offline maps.

Ivan Klabukov, CEO and co-founder of HUDWAY, said that they will eventually partner with a cellular provider to offer customers an affordable data plan. The Hudway Drive is able to receive data either by connecting through your smartphone’s hotspot Wi-Fi connection or through an internal SIM card for its own 4G LTE connection. You are also able to play and control most of your music applications through the Hudway Drive display. The audio from the Hudway Drive system can be channeled through your car stereo via the AUX output on the side of the unit or through the built-in FM transmitter.

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Your phone connects to the Drive system via Bluetooth to allow you to answer calls and even listen to incoming text messages. The display is marketed as 20 times brighter than any smartphone and it has the clarity level of any modern OEM auto manufacturer system. Any concerns on daytime visibility from the Hudway Glass are gone with the built-in projected display. This data is used to display various information like speed, engine rpm, fuel economy, and fuel levels on the display screen. The Hudway Drive is powered through an included OBD-II cable and also uses the connection to receive data from your vehicle. There is even a template of the 6 inch long and 4.5 inch tall unit to allow you to test if the device will work in your vehicle.

The unit is much larger in person than it looks in photos but was compact enough to fit on even a smaller dashboard with no problems. The black body is rather simple but features a very slick front LED strip that pulses when talking. We had some concerns for the Hudway Drive after some initial build quality issues with the Hudway Glass we tested this year, but the new Drive is very solid in its plastic construction and feels like a premium product that should warrant the $400 price. In addition to being controlled by gestures and vocal commands, the Hudway Drive includes a remote button control that attached to the steering wheel. The hardware also has a Bluetooth 4.0 connection, GPS antenna, gyroscope, accelerometer, microphone for audio input, AUX output, FM transmitter, and front-facing IR camera to track driver fatigue and gestures. Uber gives up on developing its own self-driving carįaraday Future FF91 first drive: Raw power