Display system for automotive vehicle

A display system adapted to be disposed in a dashboard in a vehicle compartment, the dashboard including an instrument panel and a hood located above the instrument panel and below a front windshield of said vehicle compartment, wherein the instrument panel is provided with a first opening directed toward a driver's seat in the vehicle compartment, and the hood is provided with a second opening directed toward an internal surface of the front windshield, said display system comprising:

• indicator means mounted within said dashboard, for forming an inverted image indicative of display information, a display surface of said indicator means being opposed to the internal surface of the windshield through the second opening;
• mirror means, arranged within the dashboard and movable between a first position and a second position, for, in the first position:
• (1) reflecting visual rays representative of the display information on said indicator means before such rays reach the second opening toward the first opening to provide the information as an erected virtual image within a frame of the first opening, and (2) blocking the visual rays propagating toward the second opening and for, in the second position:
• (a) permitting the visual rays to propagate toward the second opening to provide the information as an erected virtual image on the internal surface of said windshield and (b) blocking the visual rays toward the first opening and
• means for selectively actuating said mirror means between the first and second positions.