BMW Demos Night Vision

BMW has released a video of BMW 7 Series Night Vision System with FIR (infrared) camera in front air dam. Video includes night driving scene with a jogger and a skater on the road. Infrared image is displayed on the on-board monitor. From here

Now how long will it take them car manufacturers to replace them wind-shields with such IR screens and make street lighting redundant. One of my *bright* ideas for fighting global warming.

BMW X5

BMW launches the X5 in India. Now how exciting is that. #$%^&^%$#