Infrared night vision used in the automotive field
Driving at night, the road is clearly recognizable from the distance in front of your car illuminated by your high beams, but there are always dangers lurking in the dark glimpses ahead.
Despite the considerable advances in automotive lighting technology over the years, nighttime driving is still much riskier than daytime. It is often the case that when you spot someone changing a tire on the side of the road in the light, or a pedestrian or livestock crossing the highway, it is already too late to be caught off guard. General Motors has also conducted a questionnaire survey of drivers, for the car on the thirty or forty kinds of electronic devices, so that they are based on their own preferences of the degree of scoring, the results of the survey showed that the vast majority of drivers on the car night vision system, hope that their cars can be fitted with this equipment. The reason for this is because airbags and ABS only work in the event of an emergency, while automotive night vision systems are active devices that can prevent problems before they occur, greatly improving the safety of the car in special weather driving.
But if you have a car infrared night vision device, then you are equal to grow a pay a pair of wearing binoculars owl eyes, because the car's night vision system will help you see clearly selected in the front light illumination outside the scope of the front view, so you have foresight, can be found as early as possible in the darkness in the potential dangers, which is too big to improve the safety of driving.
On the screen, the edge of the highway, the middle of the road markings, objects on the highway, as well as pedestrians on the side of the road ready to cross the highway can be displayed. As a result, automotive night vision is able to spot more than headlights and can take in everything up to twice the distance of high beams. But the nature of this infrared imaging technology is such that the picture you see looks like a black and white TV image. However, the lack of image quality in automotive night vision is more than compensated for in the field of view.
The *biggest* beneficiaries of night vision systems will be those nighttime automobile drivers, who can have more leeway in braking and reacting due to the greatly expanded safety distances. An automotive night vision system is not a substitute for visual information obtained with your eyes; it simply provides you with information about road conditions farther away when it's dark, especially to help when you can't see clearly. Although automotive night vision devices can provide visual images more than 50 times that of the human eye at night, we are strongly opposed to the use of ordinary automotive night vision devices as an airplane blind landing system. Automotive night vision devices simply extend the driver's field of vision beyond the range of headlight illumination. Therefore, before using a night vision device, you must comply with national traffic laws and turn on your headlights, otherwise it will not be safe.
