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These will break more often, and be expensive to fix; the result will be that lots of cars will be on the road without a rear-view.
by josh_fyi 7y ago
These will break more often, and be expensive to fix; the result will be that lots of cars will be on the road without a rear-view.
- av500 7y agoremember, with a broken camera mirror, you car won't even start ;)
- chii 7y agoI'm getting juicero flashbacks
- HeavenFox 7y agoIf the automakers manage to put the camera inside the car body, it probably would be a lot less likely to break. It might even be cheaper to fix - a rear mirror assembly has quite some moving parts and need to be painted to match the car
- dajohnson89 7y agodigital cameras have far more moving parts than a rear view mirror assembly.
- nobodyshere 7y agoHow so? A fixed wide focus camera doesn't really have any moving parts at all afaik.
- chii 7y agoAny small old bump might knock a wire loose. You'd have to have a pretty large jolt to knock a mirror off its housing or mount.
- nobodyshere 7y agoSmall old bump will never "knock a wire loose". This is serious industrial level equipment that must handle rain, snow and other shitty conditions including vibrations of a wide frequency range. And all that at least for the warranty period of a vehicle.
- saiya-jin 7y ago> And all that at least for the warranty period of a vehicle. You got me till this point, and you prove we should be cautious about such tech. I live in one of the richest cities in the world (certainly one of most expensive), and the amount of 10+ year old cars is huge. Go to country side, and they become majority, with many clocking 15+ years. For physical mirror to fail, you need to break it or completely lose it, and then its obvious whats the situation. Electronics have more components that can fail, and as an IT guy, I know what can will eventually fail (ie how many digital cameras work flawlessly after 10 years of daily use?). Last thing I need is to have an potentially unreliable critical safety feature in the car.
- nobodyshere 7y agoIf health check of such systems is included in periodic maintenance events, there shouldn't be a problem at all. I'm also not quite sure that good old mechanical cars fail less than modern vehicles supplied with lots of complicated electronic stuff.
- Johnny555 7y agoI used to drive an old 1979 - that car had few electronic conveniences, but left me sitting on the side of the road more than once. It had also developed a problem where it couldn't idle for more than a few minutes because the engine would stall (mixture to rich, maybe?). My current oldest car is a 2003, it has electronic fuel injection, as well as a number of other electric conveniences - remote control mirror, power seat, cd changer, etc. I've only done routine maintenance and replaced a leaking engine seal, and that car has been 100% reliable and has never left me sit. My much newer 2007 car has a lot more electronics (more airbags, automatic breaking, adaptive cruise control), but so far, still has had no problem, but it's only 3 years old (bought in 2016), so time will tell.
- Johnny555 7y agoI spent about $400 to replace a side-view mirror that had stopped working, it was no longer adjustable. The rear-view camera on our car is 3 years old and hasn't broken yet, but it took 7 years for the side mirror to stop working on the other car, so I guess time will tell, but the camera seems much simpler (and the camera doesn't need to stick out from the car like a traditional mirror so should be less prone to accidental breakage)