Night vision, helmet-mounted heads-up displays coming

[gusto]

This sounds interesting...

"infra-red cameras mounted behind clear lenses set into the front of the bike's rear-view mirrors pick out images even in pitch darkness... these work together like a pair of eyes to give a stereoscopic view to the bike's on-board computer – allowing it to judge how far away objects are and alert the rider if there's anything in his path that's beyond the reach of the conventional headlights."

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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Great, something else to go wrong and cost a fortune to fix
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[krebsy]

Helmet mounted display showing the road ahead.....

What happens when you turn your head and look at something else?

Confusion that's what..

You can make this kind of system quite cheaply with a few webcams (converted to infra-red by replacing the filter with black photo negative) , a micro netbook PC and one of those digital picture frams with an RGB input.

One bodge job later and hey presto, infra red night vision.

Ok, might not fit on a bike but cheap and cheerful.

K.
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[karoshi]

don't care about any of that, I just want my fecking road legal Airwolf Helmet for crying out loud *sulks*

I'd buy one of them even if it was made by Arai
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[karoshi]

headlight (even high beam) gives you a limited range of view, say 100 yards?

IR edge recognition would overlay onto your view of the road ahead and fill in the outlines and shapes of things that are further away than that, still in the total blackout darkness just beyond your light beam.. you'd still have the headlight illumination so you can see as normal, but the inside of the visor would be projecting information from further away to you giving you more warning and reaction time?

If you did it as a two-part system, having a 2nd IR emitter Headlamp on the bike and the pickup filter built into your helmet, when you turn your head the overlay would turn with you.
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[yuri2085]

Maybe I am reading wrong but it dosnt talk about the camera being on the helmet, its on the front of the bike.


The 'heads up display' is in the helmet...

[Flip]

What happened to riding properly and reading the road etc? They'll ride themselves soon and take you to the sat nav location that you input.

[TheFoxyDuke]