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Re:Deterioration of Local Community a Major Driver of Loss o... by lukan on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @08:58AM (#40645713)
"along with those super bright headlamps that ruin your night vision when they're equipped on an oncoming vehicle."

I hate them.

I dream of the day, when proper night vision gear with the result displayed to the front window will be standard in cars, so all the cars can have no, or very soft lights to drive around savely at night.

Also, why not heat vision to better spot humans (and animals)? For the AI as well as the humans.

Is the tech military restricted?

Probably partly.

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Re:Deterioration of Local Community a Major Driver of Loss o... by schmidtleonard on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @10:29AM (#40646586)
One nice side effect of headlights becoming LED arrays is that selective dimming is free in terms of marginal cost. Right now it's a luxury car gimmick but it'll eventually trickle down, and then we can mandate it.
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Re:Deterioration of Local Community a Major Driver of Loss o... by ruined on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @09:51AM (#40646180)
photonic intensifiers are ITAR controlled, but china has started manufacturing gen2 equivalents recently.

digital is controlled but more widely made, but also barely worth it.

the real issue is how to display it. for head-mounted setups it's essentially full field of view, and in monocular use combination is subconscious, but it's still rather awkward and requires practice. you can't achieve the same effect on a windshield, even with HUD.

cadillac had this feature in the 90s, though.

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Re:Deterioration of Local Community a Major Driver of Loss o... by godelski on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @02:51PM (#40650005)
This made me interested and I found a small showcase of HUDs in cars from the 1950's-1990's

https://hudway.co/blog/history-of-automotive-heads-up-displa...

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Re:Deterioration of Local Community a Major Driver of Loss o... by lukan on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @03:55PM (#40650756)
"the real issue is how to display it"

Unfortunately, yes. I know that there are various sci-fi solutions in the labs already, of projecting the image directly into the eye, or correctly on the windshield while taking the head position of the driver into account, but it probably takes a long time till they are a) reliable b) affordable c) standard in every car

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