night vision also unmasks police cars lurking in the shadows at night waiting to pounce.
When properly translated means that we will never see this technology used in Government Motors cars.
Infra-red nightvision piped through digital analysis software and transmitted over the air using cell-phone technology would be an excellent "social-media" application. Sort of like the computerized version of CB radios, instead of trying to grok trucker CB lingo, your iPad shows a nifty 3D representation of the LEO's location generated by a community of other drivers passing along "hot-spots" in the median and off the shoulder with timestamps and GPS coordinates.
I think I am going to work on writing that spec and filing for that patent now.
I think (and I'm too lazy to look it up), the technology was pioneered by GM and offered as an option on Cadillacs some years ago. It was dropped b/c of cost and lack of demand. It's currently available on several high-end Euro and Japanese cars. Like BMW.
But no, this doesn't fit with the current GM focus -- such as the "Big Brother" event recorders included in each GM car.
There's a app for that: Trapster