It is now possible to install optic displays of new fashion because of new display technologies (i.e. active matrix TFTs). New sensor systems, data processing devices and algorithms make it possible to transmit more than the usual information to the driver. The question is what kind of information in which form should be transmitted to a truck driver? Any new contents of the optical displays in trucks is meaningful, however, only if through them an improvement can be achieved in an ergonomic way. The following strategies and/or questions for investigations are conceivable: Is it possible, to relieve drivers, through one optimal designed optic display, of a part of the mental effort to integrate and process the conventional displayed information? This could itself be expressed in a reduction of the demand on the driver, also in shorter or rarer glances to the display and rarer faults in changing gears. Or: Is it possible to relieve drivers, through an optimal designed optic display, of a part of the training that must be overcome to give newcomers an expert's knowledge? This could express itself in a shortening of the duration of adaption and training to a new truck or new conditions driving the usual truck.
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