Driver Vision Enhancement
Your day was going well until you were driving home at night and a deer ran
out in front of you. The damage to your car is incredible and now you have the
problem of dealing with insurance and repair shops to get the damage repaired.
Or maybe you were lucky and were able to swerve at the last minute to avoid
hitting the pedestrian walking in the darkness along side the road.
Newer headlamps are brighter and consume less power, but the D.O.T.
regulations balance increased brightness with concern for
blinding oncoming drivers. To complicate matters, human vision, perception and
reaction time all decline with age. Drivers are more susceptible to blinding
with age.
What if you were able to see farther and better without brighter blinding
headlamps? Thermal imaging night vision cameras supplement vehicle headlights,
allowing drivers to see people and animals in the darkness well beyond the
range of the headlamps. Drivers have more time to perceive the danger and they
have more time to react safely.
Bridge Semiconductor thermal imaging camera modules are lowering the cost of
these systems to make them more affordable and therefore available to many
more drivers
Automotive manufacturers including
General Motors,
Honda and
BMW
are planning to release driver vision enhancement systems based on
thermal imaging technology.