Night View - Night View

An innovative infrared technology developed by Mercedes to improve perception in the dark.

With the Night View function, Mercedes-Benz technicians have developed infrared eyes that can detect pedestrians, cyclists or obstacles in the road ahead of time.

Behind the windshield to the right of the interior rearview mirror is a camera that, instead of detecting infrared light emitted by hot objects (like a BMW device does), uses two additional headlights that emit infrared light. The two headlights, mounted next to the traditional headlights, light up when the car reaches a speed of 20 km / h: they can be thought of as a pair of invisible distant beams that illuminate the road with a light that is only detected by a night vision camera.

On the display, the image is the same black and white, but more detailed than in the BMW system, with a quality not much different from that of the camera's viewfinder. The location of the screen in the center of the on-board dashboard makes it easier to operate the device than a night vision device, since it only interferes with the passage of the steering wheel spokes when cornering.