The Transparent Bonnet technology uses cameras embedded into the 4x4's front grille to capture live images and feed them back to a large HUD in front of the driver.

Although the notion of a HUD is nothing new – the upcoming Mini Cooper S features a similar system that displays speed and sat-nav instructions – Land Rover’s use of such an expansive system is. For one thing, most HUDs overlay information over a smaller proportion of your vision as, say, Google Glass does. The Transparent Bonnet's HUD is gargantuan by comparison, both physically and based on the amount of your field of vision that it occupies.

The other information displayed on the HUD - such as a digital compass, steering position, yaw and gradient information - is something we're already familiar with from existing Discovery and Range Rover models. We would expect more advanced off road-centric read-outs to be included should the Transparent Bonnet technology get the green light, as there's much potential to having an array of cameras covering this portion of the ground.

The technology can be turned on and off as needed, so shouldn't provide too much of a distraction unless you're desperate to see what an extra metre and a half of A303 looks like as you drive over it. We're yet to find out from Land Rover how many cameras are involved, and how the HUD adjusts the image it presents based on the changing perpective of the driver, but we will update this story when we do.

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