Car Cameras vs Mirrors
This cluster focuses on debates about replacing traditional car mirrors with cameras, including benefits like better visibility, drawbacks such as failure modes, regulatory requirements for backup cameras, and comparisons to existing vehicle camera systems.
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... aren't there already cameras? For the safety of the driver at a minimum?
Are those cameras in place for side-view mirrors?
Some cars fulfill this with a screen in the rear view mirror.
Many modern cars have very good backup cameras that also show incoming traffic from both sides and don't required 5 eyeballs
Some vehicles have a camera pointed at the back seat for this reason.
Uh... why don't they put the cameras... into the car (it works for human drivers)???
Is it legal to replace the side mirrors with cameras? (Needs bigger displays for the driver.)
It's not a mirror. They are replacing it with a camera. Which, as any vehicle camera ever, will be susceptible to everything described.
Does using cameras rather than sideview mirrors have any benefits? Surely they add more modes of failure compared to mirrors.
Driving a car without a backup cam feels like being blind