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Driving with Night Vision
gub writes "Cadillac DeVille DHS and DTS 2000 models now have available Night Vision, a driver enhancement system giving you an extended view of the road ahead. Infrared technology detects thermal energy of objects beyond the range of your headlamps or hidden behind the glare of oncoming lights. The thermal images are superimposed via a HUD on your windshield. "
Fuel-cell cars kick up significant heat, so they're probably fine in a world with these, but what about pure electrics? Would the brakes and maybe the climate control system be the only significant heat sources? Would they be enough to see an electric car by in warmer months?
A lot of things that ultimately show up in the auto market debut on Cadillac cars. As GM's high-end, they appeal to people with money to spare which is useful when a new tech is just coming out of the lab. A few things that Cadillac led with:
They had a forerunner of ABS available in 1970.
Air bags were available in the mid-'70s. So was EFI.
They did tilt wheels in the '60s.
I believe they were also the first GM division to add OnStar to their cars.
The trend at GM is to move things down throughout the line - look for Night Vision to be on Buick and the high-end GM trucks (Suburban and Tahoe) in another year or two, then for it to be on Olds and Pontiac, followed by Chevy and (maybe) Saturn in the middle of the next decade.
Night Vision is one of those things that screams "why didn't anybody think of it sooner". From what I've seen of it, it doesn't get in the way, and just spotlights things that are out of your headlights' range. I could use that when I'm staying on the Vineyard - the damn deer are everywhere on the island.
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Near-infrared is much like regular light, but just a bit longer wavelength than visible red light and doesn't have much to do with the temperature of an object. It is used by remote controls, computer IR ports, etc. and can be imaged with Sony Nightvision cameras. Many tranditional camcorders, digital cameras, quickcams and other CCDs can pick it up to a lesser extent (remote controls can be seen to blink for example). Some digital cameras can photograph in near-infrared with the addition of a filter and conventional cameras with special film. The Nightvision trick worked because many materials that appear opaque to us are transparent to varying degrees to near-infrared light. The sun is used as a big fat IR light source, and the visible light which would normally obscure the image is blocked out by a special filter, sold separately :-). I haven't had a chance to check out one of those cameras, but I suspect that they have some small source of IR light (IR LEDs probably) for actually nighttime photography.
Far-infrared or thermal imaging reqires more expensive equipment and actually picks up on warm objects. You can see that sort of thing on Cops when they're chasing the baddies around with the helicopter at night. I suspect that's what this uses because near-infrared would pick up on everything and would require an infrared light source that extends farther than your headlights. If it does use far-IR then I don't think you could pull off the same trick as with the Sony Nightvision cameras. If it uses near-IR, I still doubt you could pull it off because it would only work in the day, during which the feature is probably not useable. Either way, it would be MUCH cheaper for your average pervert to get a Sony Nightvision camcorder than a Cadillac (I'm sure somebody's found a way to get around the modifications Sony's made to "fix" it.)
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People often assume that seeing infrared means seeing heat, and that's just not true. That's the difference between ``near infrared'' and ``far infrared.'' Things that are hot throw off far infrared in the same way that things that are really hot throw off visible light.
The Sony Nightshot camera, and all of those nightvision scopes you can buy on the web for from $200-$3000 are near-IR, which means that they can only see objects that are illuminated by an IR light source, like an IR spotlight, or (sometimes) the ambient IR from the night sky.
Thermal imaging hardware is insanely expensive. I understand that this is because it requires tremendously low temperatures, e.g., liquid nitrogen cooling. The explanation I heard is that, analagous to the way the inside of a camera must be completely dark to pick up light without interference, the inside of a heat imager must be completely cold to pick up heat without interference.
Anyway, I'm not an expert on how thermal imaging works, but I do know that it's not available in any kind of ``cool toy'' price range, so I seriously doubt that's what this car has. It's far more likely that the car has a near-IR CCD camera, and IR headlights.
BTW, almost all CCDs see slightly into near-IR beyond the range of human vision: if you look through any modern camcorder and press the button on a remote control, you'll be able to see the beam.
The police already use helicopters with IR to detect indoor growing operations, even in medium size cities like Indianapolis. It's the grow lights that draw thier attention. I went to a police auction and forbade my roomate from buying $2000 lights for $1 because they're just so easy to spot from the air. Also, I think the cops were going to follow the buyer home.
-Barry
Suppose you get into an accident on the highway at night in your high-tech automobile. Imagine the insurance adjuster claims visibility was a factor, would you get penalized for having this high-tech device. Technology is often demonized in court.
This could be a great tool for those of us who have to make loooong drives at night for work or other reasons. It would be a great help to long distance truckers, I would imagine, allowing them to extend their driving further into the night with somewhat less worries about their vision.
But how well does it work? Will it really provide significantly more safety? Will it even be viable? When will it become mainstream? How much extra will we have to pay? What might be side effects? So many questions have to be considered before we all jump on the bandwagon. Just my $0.02.
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Finally I can ignore those annoying people who drive with their high-beams on or use colored headlights. As a sidenote - this will also enable you to see people walking down the side of the road - a definite safety plus. I rather wonder though what it looks like - engines generate lots of heat, plus in the winter you have all that heat energy in the passenger compartment - wouldn't that make it rather difficult to distinguish between two cars driving next to each other in different lanes? Hmmm, well... time will tell. Either way that's pretty cool. I wonder how long until it makes it into the hands of the less fortunate souls that don't have a spare 100k lying around to get a car...
CHeck out their little demo and you'll see how visible live and/or hot things are; it's impressive. But the street sign shows up as black. Does this mean that street signs will be unreadable? I imagine there's some way around it other than switching off your scope, or Cadillac are just begging for lawsuits.
That's great for drive-by shootings. I gotta have one.
I wonder how long before someone abuses this peice of nightvision (convert it to x ray vision), like they did with the Sony Handycam, looking through peoples clothes as you drive could be dangerous.
So, how long until someone puts a targeting recticle on theirs? ( you know, sorta like the big hood ornaments that Mercedes have :)
I left my body to science, but I'm afraid they've turned it down...
If you're on a loose surface (such as sand or gravel) then a locked wheel will build up a wedge of material in front of it, which helps slow it down. ABS stops this happening, which is mostly why rally cars don't get fitted with ABS even though it's legal.
The train company are being truly nasty on this one and I'd do my best to publicise what they've done if I were you, but they are right that ABS (marginally) increases stopping distances on loose surfaces. It's so much better on any solid surface that it's still something you should look out for on your next car, though.
Greg
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This actually occurred to me last time I had moderator points and I'd be delighted if the moderation guidelines could be changed to take account of this.
What I decided was the fairest solution was for me to view in nested mode so I could follow the threads easily, but with it set to newest first. That way I wasn't seeing all that much taht had already been moderated, but saw plenty of good stuff.
Alternatively, view at lowest score first. That way you'll find the AC comments which start off at 0 (something else I'd change) and can moderate them sensibly.
I accept I did this at first, but moderating while viewing at highest score first just doesn't make a lot of sense.
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If you had any idea how many drivers and pedestrians were killed each year by other drivers going too fast...
They're not killed by drivers going to fast, they're killed by drivers going faster than that driver can handle.
High speeds do not cause more accidents. That has been proven. However, high speeds cause the accidents that do occur to have a higher fatality rate.
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The average pig idling behind a bridge embankment throws off a certain amount of heat, but you still might not notice him. However, that mug of hot coffee will certainly be visible in the infrared system, and speeders will slow down before he can tag 'em. Damn! Gotta leave the java at home. Where'd I put my radar jammer, anyway?
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I have a lot of respect for police officers when they're being useful. Protecting me from my own gas pedal is not useful.
Useless prank: Use a torch to "heat-paint" obscene things on bridge embankments, etc. Totally invisible to the unaided eye, but Olds drivers will do a quick double-take as the concrete wall tells them things. Any northerners familiar with "heat cord" that you use to prevent ice dams on your roof in winter? Tape the stuff into patterns and find a source of power.
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My parents developed FLIR (night vision) for the military/aerospace in the 70s and 80s; I heard a few stories when I was growing up. One of which, is that during the vietnam war (I believe) the military was experimenting with some active night vision technology for foot soldiers. The way it worked was that they would have a soldier stand up with an infrared lamp flashlight type deal and illuminate in front, and the soldiers in his company would wear special filter glasses. Anyhow, it turns out that asian's can see just slightly more into the infrared than caucasians, such that lamp was visible to some of them. The developers never realized this and the soldiers discovered the hard way. It didn't take them long to realize that it was equivalent to wearing a big flashing sign saying "shoot me". Eventually the soldier's refused to carry the lamp, it took the brass/developers a couple weeks to find out though.
I can't speak for Ontario's weather, but in the mountains in the northeastern U.S. (and presumably any mountainous area) you can drive into 20' visibility fog in a matter of seconds. Sometimes the fog will come rolling across perpendicular to the highway which affords no chance of "seeing ahead." I believe the recent accident in PA that resulted in two deaths was that kind of situation: a fog bank rolled in very quickly, at which point the (professional) bus drivers tried to pull off the road and stop, but the fog was so dense, so quickly, that the buses collided with each other.
It's just a sheet of metal or fibreglass. It doesn't generate heat, and its temperature probably follows that of its surroundings closely. Thus you wouldn't expect it to generate a lot of infra-red energy compared to some other objects, such as living things.
The idea is not to replace the driver's view of the road but rather to augment it. Road signs are already coated with a material which makes them reflect headlights, so they are highly visible already without any help.
Oh no! Now you can't even hide your *ahem* private endeavours behind the glare of your headlights. Thermal images, really! Reminds me of "R" in TWINE - must be a Y2K glitch!
Sreeram.
Cool device! I'd love to have a car with that thing. Even if it's just for the fun of it. Perhaps now people will stop swearing at drivers who shine their headlights into your face? :-)
Still, a device is just a device... it's meant to help conscientious drivers drive better. But I doubt it would make that much a difference for careless drivers. Nothing can replace human responsibility, IMHO.
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http://www.cadillac.com/te ch/nightmoves/see/shocked.html
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>Stupid people amaze me. Yeah, like that guy who thinks that headlights can give you better vision than night vision. Military pilots can LAND using night vision. I believe the only problem is viewing signs.
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Military pilots have an entire array of informative widgits other than nightvission for use when landing.. not to mention the IR rig they have is ( I'm betting, send me a URL w/ proof if I'm wrong ) far more advanced than that of any publicly available car. ( barring special after market enchancements, sure anyone w/ a few mill can get there hands on a high grade IR setup and rig it to their car ). And you have to be liscensed and trained to fly by instrumentation before you can legaly do so.
I as well fear the person who assumes they can drive with out paying attention to the "real" world.
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Agree on a standard whereby all IR headlights are polarized horizontally, and windshields polarized vertically. The reflected IR light will become depolarized, but direct IR light will still be polarized, and be filtered by oncoming cars' windshields.
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I got to play with what must have been the precursor to the Cadillac technology a few years ago, and it was QUITE IMPRESSIVE. At the time, I was working with the world's largest oil producer on an emergency oil spill response network. I participated in a drill where they tried several new things, including the "instant global network" I built for them, some new voice comms technology, and also a demo of the GM Hughes thermal vision system as it would be sold to law enforcement officials. (This could enhance security of the response site, since the enviros have been known to sabotage spill response operations - go figure...)
It was a dreary winter day in Houston, about 50 degrees and misting - we were at the far end of the parking lot and the drizzle was producing a notable amount of fuzz when looking toward the main building. The GM guy fired up the vision system, and on a little 6" black and white monitor, we suddenly saw a bright white spot moving across the parking lot, attached to the right arm of a walking figure barely visible by eye through the mist. The GM guy grinned from ear to ear - what we were seeing was the heat signature of one of the project guys, and more importantly, his cup of hot coffee, which produced a white spot about a foot and a half in diameter!
I got a fair amount of time in playing with the thing that day - it became quite obvious that there would be no effective way of hiding from such a system. Exposed skin stood out clearly from the environment at distances approaching 1/4 mile, and clothing scarcely attenuated the response, even leather jackets and such, which seemed to be about the most opaque. All this from a system which only cost about $6000 back then (c. 1995).
All in all I came away quite impressed, and wouldn't want to have to sneak past someone equipped with that technology. I don't know if the system I saw was any better because it was intended for law enforcement, or if the Cadillac system is now as good, but it impressed the heck outta me, and I'm not easily impressed by technology.
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I'd rather have Y.T.'s Knight Visions, myself...
and her 'poon, and the board, and the rest of the RadiKS gear.. hehe
Finally I can ignore those annoying people who drive with their high-beams on or use colored headlights.
This system doesn't replace your windshield at all. Those people will still be able to blind you with their headlights. This thing only shows up in a small box below your normal eye level on your windshield.
Is it too damn hard to read the fucking article?
Can't we look at the picture and see what it looks like?
But no... we have to gibber on about how you could paint a Caddy black and put lasers on it and foil cops who have running engines. BLAH BLAH BLAH.
READ THE ARTICLE BEFORE POSTING. YOUR IGNORANCE DOESN'T HELP ANYONE.
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I saw a commercial for this earlier last week - it looked like a small part of the windshield was changed to a HUD, so the rest was just normal vision. I think what this does is provide night-vision ahead of you, but allows regular vision to the sides and above.
The only problem I see is that parked cars (i.e. turned off) would be invisible by this, so you're sort of screwed in that respect. =)
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The system doesn't prevent headlights from blinding you. You can still look right at the oncoming car without obstruction. The advantage this provides is that instead of looking up into the glare, you can look down at the infrared image and still be able to see the edges of the road. Headlights don't obscure your vision when you view the area in front of you with this infrared system.
I wonder if this will see hot engines through fog and help prevent chain collisions like the recent one outside of Denver?
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I'd like to see more features on my HUD. Current speed, direction, GPS coordinates, webserver statistics, fuel supply, days until y2k (BTW who compressed 'Year 2000' into 'Y2K'... isn't that kinda what got us into the problem?), maybe information on other objects within view such as the speed of the car in front of me superimposed above its image along with its current direction vector.
I rather wonder though what it looks like - engines generate lots of heat, plus in the winter you have all
that heat energy in the passenger compartment - wouldn't that make it rather difficult to distinguish between two cars driving next to each other in different lanes?
Hmmm, well... time will tell
I wonder the same things. But I also wonder how this is going to help if it's mounted on the dash. I guess it's not that far to glance down just an inch, esp. since you're still looking at the road, but.. most people being used to looking at things through their own eyes and with "visible" light (not IR light), I'm going to also think it's going to be a bit of a hassle not only to use but to, first, get used to. I don't quite see how it's going to help _that_ much. We've been living w/out it thus far, and I don't think that the majority of accidents happen at night/because of driving at night. People just need to pay attention to what they're doing, use their headlights when needed, and stay off the road if they're unable to drive safely.
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I worked with M60-A3 tanks about 11 years ago. They used Termal imaging for the targeting. You could see a rabit at 500 + meters. It could cut thru fog and dust. ( These sights were a major factors to the sucess of the tank battles In Iraq by Nato Forces.) You could even look at a woman and tell if she was on her period. If this is well designed it could greatly enhance driver safety. Then again how long will it be before some people stop using their headlights.
I've noticed many people saying that it will be hard to see some things with this system. What they don't seem to be thinking about is the fact that a HUD is overlayed above normal vision: you can still see anything you could before, just with an extra transparent layer in between.
Also note the "not an actual representation" text on the page with comparisons of low/high beams to the night vision.
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Slashdot readers seem to be missing the poing of this device. It is not to circumvent being blinded by drivers with their brights on but rather it is to allow a driver to see past the range of his headlights, and even his brights, in case there are people or wildlife in the road ahead.
The whole idea is for an early warning system to help prevent collisions with road side tire changers, deer, moose, et cetra.
The small box at the base of the windshiled is not susposed to be your main focus at any point while you are driving.
This system one a Grand Award from Popular Science for The Best of What's New.
A great idea that is well implemeted only wish I could afford it. Perhaps their will be a third party that begins to install the system on any car sometime in the near future.
I've never used a HUD, so I have been wondering if there is any calibration required. Does it line up correctly no matter if you are 5' tall or 6'8" ?
Then we could use the night vision for what it was originally intended...
...targeting :)
Brings new fun to "Dear Hunting" . .
Now if they would only put them on tanks . .er ummm I mean SUVs. :)
I did a quick search on altavista and found this article with one picture and here is that piture a little bigger.
Just wait until you can get some generic system that can be retrofitted into any car. It looks like it should be doable. The system components, as described, are a camera mounted behind the car's grille, some processor that can be put anywhere, and some method of projection from the dashboard. It's just a matter of availability of the parts.
Sure nightvision is a great thing, but it's just a small step in innovation. The next generation will need auto target tracking, friend or foe detection, and voice activated autofire.
They could even make them in different colors so they could sell to the Bloods *AND* the Crips.
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I have dual feelings about this technology. On 1 hand, I do think that the Idea of it all is great. It is amazing the technologies that they can work with now.
But on the second hand, I see it as yet another distraction in the car for the driver. Sure it will offer the driver better long range vision at night, but it is also 1 more thing for the driver to concetrate on. Personally I found that the digital gas and speed gauges were distracting enough...they are two "busy". I can just imagine how busy the display would be. I also think that drivers would get too dependant on the IR view.
This SJMercury article has more info about the technology. Gives a good overview of the subject, and mentions Cadillac's system.
Also, I've seen similar night vision setups sold by a number of dealers specializing in armored vehicles. I can't find any specific links, though.
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I don't think this is all good, folks. I mean think about it - do you really want the people who drive Cadillacs to feel encouraged to come out driving at night? I've seen 4'2" Grannies park their SS Devilles into a tree in broad daylight, with no other cars on a straight piece of road. I don't exactly feel "safer" with this invention, for some reason.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
It has always been my opinion that the coolest new technology is the one predicted in science fiction, whether it be television or print. And this new Infrared technology with a HUD display is just another example. Anyone remember the TV movie Knight Rider 2000? It came out a few years after the TV series ended. Well, the new model KITT had this exact technology.
I'm probably the only one who knows what I'm talking, but all the same, I think it's pretty damn cool! If it weren't for the fact that I'd be constantly distracted by the HUD, I'd definitely want this as a feature in my next new car.
Cars sold in the US suffer from crappy DOT-approved lighting. If only we could get Euro spec lighting approved in the US, then we would not have to resort to night vision to see what's ahead of us in the dark! I converted to european lighting on my 1985 VW GTI, and it is absolutely awesome! The kit that I used comes with 7 inch round H4 headlights (same as used on the european GTIs) and H3 fog lamps. I can run 90/130W H4 bulbs without blinding oncoming drivers - way cool! It takes a bit of rewiring, though :)
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A lot of people seem to be confusing night vision and thermal imaging. This system does not replace headlights, and isn't night vision. In other words, it does not magnify the intensity of light electronically and spit it out onto a CRT (although wouldn't it be nice to have no more streetlights or headlights ever! no light pollution, no more having to drive 200 mi. to watch the Leonids). All this is is a simple infra-red (heat sensing) mechanism. It can pick up things that would usually be out of the range of your headlights, provided there is some sort of temperature contrast. Typically, this would be a warm person walking by the side of the road at night, or a deer, or freshly wrecked cars, etc. I guess you could use it to see a really cold person on a hot day too ;) Think "Predator" with his mask on, sans the hydraulic hair and cool breathing noises. Same thing, except from what I have seen they don't colorize the picture so it's all one monochromatic scene with varying tints signifying different heat levels. Living in Los Angeles, this is pretty worthless (Although Jason Priestley might argue), but I'm sure someone, somewhere will benefit from it.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
One big problem will be boresight alignments. Unless the sensor is placed on the roof near where the windshield meets it, there will usually be at least 3 ft difference in the line of sight of the driver and the sensor. This means that the image will not always line up with what the driver sees with his own eyes. I wonder how they plan on dealing with the double images drivers will be seeing, or if they're not going to have it as a see-thru hud, rather a small opaque display at the base of the windscreen. Either way, matching up the display with the real world will take some of the driver's attention away from driving, and lots of drivers have enough problems just keeping on the road let alone looking at some camera view too.
http://www.cadillac.com/t ech/nightmoves/see/notshocked.html
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This will be a great aid for places such as Northern Maine, where it's generally considered unsafe to drive at night, let one get run over by a moose. (for those of you city folk who don't understand how it works: you don't run over the moose, the moose runs over you. Or at least just stands there. Either way, the moose is the one that's going to walk away.) Wonder what its range is . . .
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Something nobody has mentioned (at least not when I read through everything), but which is important: the Cadillac system only points directly forward. So the moment you start to go around any kind of a curve, it only tells you whats off to the side of the road on the wrong side. The correct way to do it is for the camera angle to change in real time according to the angle of the steering wheel and your velocity. So as you curve to the right, it would angle to the right to point at where you're actually going to go (and maybe a little further to the right, since often what's critical is what's on the edge of the road). Added cost? Yes. Expensive? Probably not significantly more than the current system (assuming the camera fits in a small housing). But _so_ much more useful!
After taking a look at the Night Vision feature, I find that it's much better than using high-beam headlights to illuminate the road ahead of you.
On the subject of high beams, let me be the first to say that I absolutely abhor them. People seem to think that their right to see the road should overshadow mine. Sure, they can see everything ahead of them, but I sure can't! It's much worse when an SUV comes up behind you (even with the low beams on). The light reflects off my mirrors and blinds me (even with the rear-view mirror in the "night" position). Some people just don't know how to drive...
Problem is, every time I flash my headlights to tell someone to turn theirs down, they slow down instead, thinking that there's a speed trap ahead. And I'm still blinded. Go figure.
When did people stop taking responsibility for their actions? When the first SUV was created.
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Get a black caddie, tint the windoze, paint over the chrome bumpers black as well.
Kick this sucker on at night, kill your lights. You're pretty much free to haul balls @ 150 if you want.
Sure, if you blast past a cop his radar'll pick you up. But once you're outa the range of his headlights you're pretty much invisible to him unless the highway is really well-lit (most aren't) or there's a really bright full moon.
Meanwhile, you just tracked the cop with your radar detector. So you know to pull off into the next rest area, wait a few minutes, then head back out @ 70 or so with your lights on like a good little motorist.
Of course, I'd want to do it with night vision goggles so I could see all around the car in whatever direction I looked instead of just what's in that little HUD.
Hmmm, If people started doing this the roads'd get quite a bit more dangerous. Probably it's a good thing that the geezers most likely to own caddies rarely drive at night, and hardly ever above 45 when they DO drive.
But what happens when this thing gets put on a Porche???
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I also included some of the other features that most geeks would be interested in (CD-ROM Navigation, ect).
Cadillac DHS Base MSRP $ 44,700*
Individual Options:
- On-Board CD-ROM Based Navigation Display with Bose® 4.0 High Performance Music System Consists of: Six-Disc CD Changer (located in glove box) $ 1,995
- Radio - AM Stereo/FM Stereo, Cassette Tape and MiniDisc, Weatherband, Digital Signal Processing, Radio Data System, & Theftlock; Eight-Speaker Bose® Acoustic System $ 300
- Safety / Security Package Consists of: StabiliTrak, Ultrasonic Rear Parking Assist, Garage Door Opener - 3-Channel Programmable $ 895
- Night Vision $ 1,995
- Adaptive Seats, Driver and Front Passenger $ 995
Destination Charge $ 670Total MSRP $ 51,550*
Speaking of cops, this should do wonders for speeders trying to avoid tickets, since when cops hide, they always have their engines running. This should make it easy to spot them a nice long way off - even before a radar detector would warn you. Of course, unless you are on the highway, you might get a lot of false alarms from patrons in store parking lots, etc...