Night-vision has the potential to become mainstream thanks to the Peugeot 508 and DS 7 Crossback, which offers it on a sub-£40,000 car. Taking over the central portion of the adaptive LCD dashboard, the relatively narrow angle of view takes in hazards a decent distance ahead, with a shimmering monochrome image. It's not too distracting, despite the high position of Peugeot's new dashboard that seeks to live in the same eyeline as head-up displays, and proves very effective. It's also instantly apparent that it is genuinely using infrared rather than merely very high sensitivity cameras, as the bright white-hot exhausts of cars ahead of you and glowing warm tyres demonstrate.
