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Put a layer of LCD pixels into the front and rear windshields, and gradually turn the front windshield blue and the rear windshield red as the car approaches maximum design speed.
Bonus addition: In-dash clock that slows as car picks up speed.
Credits to [waugsqueke] and [krelnik] for correcting
the physics...
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Also change the speedometer so it reads as a percentage of C. |
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According to Special Relativity, the clock already slows down the faster you go. At least, to pedestrians and fire hydrants... |
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kinda like when the shutte re-enters the atsmophere? |
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This would only make sense if you're in reverse. Red shift occurs when things are moving away from you. |
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Ah yes, so the red goes in the rear windshield. You'd need a blue shift set to go in the front windshield. |
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Idea updated per [waugs] and [krelnik]... |
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+. Could you have warp drive type stars flying along the side windows? |
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What color does it turn when you are speeding? |
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Yes, [dag], you don't do speed cuz you're high on life. ; ) |
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[DQ] - "rear windshield" Is this a UK thing? The way I drive (forward), only the front glass shields me from the wind. The side and rear glass are just windows. |
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As an alternative to this idea, you could "make velocity apparent" by setting up hundreds of millions of stationary objects outside the vehicle. These would seem to move relative to the vehicle with increasing speed in proportion to the vehicle's speed. This has the added advantage of already existing. |
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