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On trucks/vans rented at Home Depot cameras have already replaced rear view mirrors. The video screen was mounted in the standard rear view mirror position. Pe
by mch82 7y ago
On trucks/vans rented at Home Depot cameras have already replaced rear view mirrors. The video screen was mounted in the standard rear view mirror position.
Personally, I loved the cameras.
Similarly, I’m able to park faster when I rent cars with cameras. Over the past few years, I’ve perceived that contemporary cars are designed with visual sight lines & ability to see the end of the trunk greatly reduced. Cars almost seem to assume a camera will be available.
Cameras are tremendously better at night, if night vision is available.
- JshWright 7y agoWe recently got a van with a "360 camera" (the screen in the center console can display an image that appears to be coming from a camera 10ft/3m above the van). When I first heard it described I figured it was a gimmick I'd never use, but I've been very wrong about that. I'm able to park much more smoothly thanks to cameras (even something at simple as centering the vehicle in spot becomes much faster when you can look in one place, rather than back and forth between mirrors).
- Animats 7y agoOh, that finally shipped! I saw the Fujitsu chip set for that offered a few years ago.
- stagger87 7y agoThere are many manufacturers of 360 degree car camera systems. They have been in vehicles for over a decade now.
- coolspot 7y agoInfinity Q45 had it in 2010.
- kube-system 7y agoIt has been available on a ton of cars over the past half-decade. It's starting to become a standard feature now. Even the sub $16K Nissan Versa Note has it standard.
- edm0nd 7y agoSome of the M series BMWs have this feature, it's amazing.
- JshWright 7y agoIn this case it's a Pacifica Plug-in Hybrid. It gets ~30 miles on the battery which more than covers our around-town driving (we average 2,500 miles between fill ups), and it feels like driving a spaceship...
- mannykannot 7y agoI would think a screen mounted in the standard rearview mirror position would be essentially unusable on the road (as opposed to parking) by anyone who needs reading glasses, as not even bifocal glasses or contact lenses would work with a screen in that position. it would seem one would need a display producing a distant virtual image, like a heads-up display.
- jerf 7y ago"Over the past few years, I’ve perceived that contemporary cars are designed with visual sight lines & ability to see the end of the trunk greatly reduced. Cars almost seem to assume a camera will be available." That design change preceded camera coverage. I believe you're looking at structural safety there. Making a car that can be collided with in almost any direction safely is not easy. Some window was lost.
- wvenable 7y agoIn my small SUV, looking out the rear window at night is useless -- literally nothing you want to see is illuminated with the rear lights in a way that's visible out the rear window. With the camera, on the other hand, the view is great.