Original Upload Date: 17/3/2019

Note: I like to point out that although the timeline of 29A has gone through changes, the Internet capable windscreens/windshields are still considered canon in 29A. However there have been some changes in regards to their development.

All modern Sentient Machines built between 2006 and now, have windshields and fold out screens with Internet capabilities. This allows them connect online and do things like socialise, and either watch videos or look at images. As well as news and searching up information.

The technology was first introduce in 2006 in Japan, when JR (Japan Railways Group) begin experimenting with Internet technology on the prototype N700 Series Shinkansen. However the development of the Internet capable windshield actually started development back in the late 90's by KazeMonitā tekunorojī (WindMonitor Technologies) Corporation a Japanese technology firm who were looking to make the Internet more accessible to Sentients everywhere. By this time the Internet was still in it's growing stage, and technology companies wanted to cash in on the new way of collecting information to help with their developments. Sentient Machines were also starting to discover the Internet, when their owners showed the new information service to them, and a 1997 study on living vehicle usage of the Internet found that over 80% of living vehicles asked their owners to take them online ever year.

While this was good for most vehicles out there at the time, there was just one problem. They found that most living vehicles could only spend up to about 2 hours of being online, before their owners either left or took them out for the day. Meaning that there was no way they could take the Internet where ever they went. This caught the attention of KazeMonitā's founder Daisuke Kawabata, who believed that he could develop a way in which vehicles could take the Internet where ever they wanted, without having to have their owners take either a laptop with them, or having to go home to use it everyday. So, in 1996 Daisuke founded KazeMonitā and he and his team set to work on the project in 1997.

Their idea for this piece of living vehicle tech was relatively simple. They, simply took a normal windshield for one of JR's Shinkansen locomotives where their eyes were most likely to be. Then turned it into a see through computer screen, with a special operating system, specially design for any Sentient Machines. Then connect a wireless Internet server built inside a compartment, and the vehicles brain to it through a series of wires, and they got themselves an Internet windshield. The technology took nine years to develop.

Upon testing of the technology on the prototype N700 Shinkansen in 2006. The windshields proved successful with the two power units, with the first one saying that he found the windshields to be a fabulous piece of technology for their kind to have, and a useful tool to help look at the route they took on their first run. Soon the Japanese media caught attention of the new technology, and all vehicles in Japan begin to realise just what this new technology could offer for them in terms of access to the Internet.

All of Japan's major car companies caught sight of this technology as well, and immediately wanted to buy the technology for use on their next generation vehicles. With Croyolla being the first company to adopt KazeMonitā's Interent Windshield technology into their vehicles. Their first car to be rolled out with the windshields was the 2007 Aomori, with the vehicle selling out like wildfire across Japan, as everyone wanted to see their vehicle with the new technology in action while stationary. The N700 Shinkansen was also introduced with the windshields that same year, and every train spotter was intrigued by how well it worked for them. By 2013 every living vehicle in Japan built after 2006 had the windshields installed in them, with thousands going online everyday, anywhere in the country.

While the technology prove successful in Japan, it was only available in that country, as well as South Korea and China when they were introduced to those countries in 2008. As car antenna's in America and Europe were not as advanced yet to connect with a wireless Internet signal, with Hong Kong for a time being the only UK territory to have vehicles with Internet Windshields that were manufactured exclusively under-license there by Define Windscreens Ltd. So, vehicles and people in other parts of the world, did not pay much attention to the Internet capable windshields. Until three years later in 2010. When the rights for the technology were purchased from KazeMonitā by California based tech company Windtech Solutions LLC with the first two vehicles to use them, were the Zeitaku VS in the United States and the Primley Solesmes in the UK. The windshields immediately caught the public eye, as the westerners became intrigued by the new piece of tech, they've never seen before outside Asia. Soon every vehicle manufacturer across the world wanted to their fit their vehicles with the windshields. Railway operators also began demanding for the technology to be installed on future locomotive fleets, with Windtech and KazeMonitā both looking to fill in on that promise.

Soon every vehicle and train, built after 2010 has had the Internet windshields installed on them. With a study in 2015 finding that 100% of all vehicles built after that year, were now using the Internet more than ever. They also found that Sentient Machines were more like to use social media much better than humans could. KazeMonitā and Windtech also stated in 2016, that over 60 million windshields were manufactured and sold.

Despite the positive feedback from cars and trains about the windshields. Planes and Boats didn't have a say in it, as ship builders and aircraft manufactures found that the Internet windshields, were not compatible with either aircraft or ships. As the aircraft's windshields were too small to have them fitted in the right position, and most ship's eyes were not usually located on the bridge. So, US aircraft manufacture Flowing came up with their own solution to this problem. They developed a screen that was similar to a smarttablets screen. But was specially design to work with aircraft and boats, and connect to the Internet in the same way that the windshields could. These screens could be stored away in a compartment on the side of either the aircraft or boat when not stationary, and be let out by the aircraft or boat when needed. Flowing introduced them on the 787 in 2011, and Airbus followed soon after with them installing them on newer models of the A380. By 2018, all aircraft and ships built after 2011 had them installed, with the RMS Queen Mary 2 having one fitted on her, during a refurbishment.

Both Internet technologies are still being improved and evolving overtime, to include new functions for the vehicles to take advantage of, and their further development is set to continue well into the future.

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