Rear view cameras have been required by law for a few years now. I'm pretty sure it was a ploy by manufacturers to get a screen on every dashboard so they could sell ads.
The manufacturers were opposed to them being required. I think they claimed it would cost an extra $200-250 per car. But they sure won’t pass up on the ads if they think they can get away with it!
Law where??? I still see junker cars from the 60s driving around here where I live.
For new car sales.
us transportation made it a law in 2014 but effective 2018 that all vehicles made after 2018 under 10000 pounds are required to have a backup screen. so any new car made in the reletive past decade will probably have one. laws for cars are not retroactive usually.
Just curious if you’re aware of any laws for cars that ARE/HAVE BEEN retroactive?
Just generically I can’t really think of anything that “could be”, but I’m no mechanic or lawyer. 🤣
Portland? Haha
Peak lemming take
They're not wrong? It's an open secret in the business world that information is the new gold.
If something is free, you're the product.
They are wrong. The manufacturers could have put and marketed a large screen display in their cars without needing to hide behind backup cameras as an excuse.
Plus, the auto companies lobbied against being forced to install backup cameras by default.
I also hate ads, but I think it was more likely to minimize how many children old people were squashing :
They're the manufacturers. They could just... Put a screen in anyway?
Consumers definitely want the cameras regardless of legislation. It's one of the very few decent features added to cars recently.
Right? I'm driving my mom's old Element to try to sell it, and it feels so unsafe to back up without the camera.
Looking around does nothing when you're sandwiched between two massive trucks.
Would this work as depicted? Wouldn't it just be a blur?
Maybe there’s a specific size/resolution of image you could use to make it work, if you knew the exact distance? But I’d also think this wouldn’t work..
Taping to the camera as shown on the left would be challenging to make work at least. The cameras don’t put out light so whatever image you use would have to be on paper thin and light enough for backlighting to work. The distortion that close would also be extreme, so you’d want to keep the main part of your image in the center and small. And yeah, it’d probably be blurry, but the resolution on most of those cameras was already pretty bad up until a few years ago so you might not notice.
Are rear view cameras really "fancy" these days?
It means your car is likely less than 10 years old, so... yes.
Not at all. They have been required since 2018 and fairly cheap to add to older vehicles.
Idk... This could backfire and scare them into punching the accelerator in reverse, causing more damage out of fear!
Mine likes to proudly announce “Connected to Bluetooth device!” while I’m in the middle of a manouevre.
I'm reading this in Ralph Wiggum's voice, like the car version of "my cats breath smells like cat food!".
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