Hi guys, has anyone out there used or installed the FLIR system in their car? They say it lets you see, through infrared about a thousand feet farther than with lights alone, making you able to hit higher speeds at night while keeping it safer.

 

interesting - links to product?

 

the product is neat.. www.flir.com/seeatatnight/

 

im sure you'll get lots of yahoos driving without head lights with this unit trying to be stealth.

 

that's an ugly twist on a neat idea...

 

Interesting idea, but you would need to wear some NV/IR goggles. The link didn't work. It won't help the other people who can't see you coming LOL.

 

FLIR is "Forward Looking Infra-Red"... its a product line of one company. Its the usual footage you see with cop chases, battlefield footage,etc.

You don't need special goggles, the system IS the goggle. It looks for infrared, and converts that to a visible image. The problem, you only see warm objects... so you will miss things like rocks in the roadway, if you use just the FLIR to drive (with lights off), as an example.

Its a neat idea... usefull for spotting things just off the road such as people, bicyclists, animals, that you may not see normally. If they do a HUD projection, it would be cool.

 

Non-functioning link.

 

correction; www.flir.com/seeatnight/ sorry about the mix-up..

 

In order to make this technology work in a vehicle, it would require a headset, glasses, goggles, an onscreen HUD image projected on the windshield or the camera mounted onto the vehicle with a portable lcd monitor. There is no other way.

We are not talking about the Sci-fi Channel, but a real-life use in a vehicle. Flir thermal imaging technology has been around many years. Their systems typically start in the thousands of dollars and sold mostly to the armed forces.

Babymd has an interesting concept to enhance driver safety. Nice post.