Patent ID: 8244463

Claim:
An apparatus for providing information to the driver of a vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a touch screen display that iteratively displays a first display that presents a menu of driver-selectable destination categories, each of the driver-selectable destination categories corresponding to a predefined geographic region, and a second display that in response to a selection by the driver of at least one of the driver-selectable destination categories presents a list of destinations corresponding to the at least one of the driver-selectable destination categories selected; a positioning and motion determining device which determines a location of the vehicle and whether the vehicle is moving or at rest; a storage device including stored information, wherein the stored information comprises information about a location of a desired driver action, the location of the desired driver action being based upon a destination selected by the driver from the list of destinations, and wherein the stored information further comprises at least one among location-related information, e-mail, advertising, weather information, and traffic information; and a comparator which compares the location of the vehicle with the stored information about the location of the desired driver action and which provides a signal when the location of the vehicle is in a predetermined relationship to the location of the desired driver action, wherein the predetermined relationship is determined based upon an estimated time when the driver should take the desired driver action; and a projector which displays a message on the windshield indicating the desired driver action in response to the signal; wherein when the positioning and motioning determining device determines that the vehicle is at rest the projector displays images corresponding to at least one among the location-related information, e-mail, advertising, weather information, and traffic information.