Why did Cadillac stop putting this in their cars. I forget, was it the Seville?
Your answer could lie with them.

Well I would use it only if my headlights didn’t work! And it’s pretty useless!!!!!!! hahahahaha did anyone hear that R. Kelly song with the monkey noises hahahahahahaha oh god so since he got caught with little girls now he’s going with the animal zoo?

you can’t even see your speed while driving with this “feature” on…

Weston screws around with his nav so much when he drives.

This is the natural next step.

useless feature, unless you’re stalking someone

There are problems with this type of device.
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1. the screen only displays a relatively narrow portion of area in front of the car, excluding most of the peripheral view. If you use the screen to drive the car, you are driving with blinders on, but it’s actually worse than blinders because if you wore blinders you can change the view as you turn your head. This only looks forward.
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2. it’s a distraction. Yes, it displays what’s ahead but when you use it, someone can be changing lanes or failing to stop at an intersection. Also since the wheel is in front of it, the display is occasionally obscured.
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I’m not saying night vision isn’t do-able, or wouldn’t be a great thing in cars, not at all but how it’s done makes all the difference. I’d say the bare minimum useable display would utilize the entire windshield, projecting from a front-mounted camera and synching the image with what is seen from the drivers POV. That would be the best application possible and anything less is a toy, and potentially a dangerous one at that.

cool but not really needed.
I mean, you still got headlights, right?

Mercedes needs to work on reliability more than in new gadgets. This is too complicated and expensive for normal drivers. Using caution and slowing down at night is the best defense. You still have to stop after identifying a hazard. Would this be better than paying attention and having the headlight adjusted and working correctly?

I was thinking the same thing. Also it takes the eyes off the road. If they were going to put Night Vision on a car why didn’t they have the display up on the window down near the bottom.
It looks very useful but needs to be farther and wider to be of any serious value.

Still it would be fun to drive without headlights on. JUST KIDDING!!!!

There are problems with this type of device.
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1. the screen only displays a relatively narrow portion of area in front of the car, excluding most of the peripheral view. If you use the screen to drive the car, you are driving with blinders on, but it’s actually worse than blinders because if you wore blinders you can change the view as you turn your head. This only looks forward.
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2. it’s a distraction. Yes, it displays what’s ahead but when you use it, someone can be changing lanes or failing to stop at an intersection. Also since the wheel is in front of it, the display is occasionally obscured.
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I’m not saying night vision isn’t do-able, or wouldn’t be a great thing in cars, not at all but how it’s done makes all the difference. I’d say the bare minimum useable display would utilize the entire windshield, projecting from a front-mounted camera and synching the image with what is seen from the drivers POV. That would be the best application possible and anything less is a toy, and potentially a dangerous one at that.