The 12-mile stretch of blacktop between Andalusia and Gantt, Ala. is just about as dark a road at night as you can find in America. A few hours before dawn the lanes are deserted of traffic but crawling with critters. Possums in particular are locally noted for throwing themselves under the wheels of fast-moving cars, and they kept trying to hurl themselves under mine. Yet I managed to spot whole families of them long before my headlights hit fur. They showed up small and white, reflected in a 4-by-8-inch letterbox projection on my windshield. I had my foot to the floor in Cadillac's new 300hp DeVille DTS, which sports thermal-imaging technology as a $2,000 option. GM grandiloquently bills its new gizmo as "bringing Desert Storm technology to your garage," and there's some truth behind the hype. Raytheon Systems developed the technology for the U.S. military and adapted it for GM once it was declassified in 1993.
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机译：安达卢西亚和阿拉巴马州甘特之间的柏油路长达12英里，在美国，夜晚的道路几乎漆黑。拂晓前几个小时，车道上人烟稀少，却爬满了小动物。负鼠特别是因为将自己扔在快速行驶的汽车的轮子下而闻名，他们一直试图把自己扔在我的下面。但是，在我的头灯撞到很远之前，我设法找到了他们的整个家庭。它们显得小而白，反映在我挡风玻璃上的4 x 8英寸信箱投影中。我站在凯迪拉克的新型300hp DeVille DTS上，它采用了热成像技术，价格为2,000美元。通用汽车大胆地将其新发明称为“将沙漠风暴技术带入您的车库”，并且在炒作背后有一些真相。雷神系统公司为美国军方开发了这项技术，并于1993年将其解密后用于通用汽车。
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