The Washington Post has an article about the BMW i8. Seems BMW engineers have a prototype that has no exterior mirrors. Instead, there are two external cameras that feed the interior review "mirror," which is really a display. The car integrates the video from three cameras (two side exterior cameras and a rear facing camera) and displays the result in the '"mirror." Current Fed Gov regs require exterior mirrors. BMW and Tesla are asking for changes to the requirement.
I'm sorry, but that's just plain weird to me. I like high tech, but I also like traditional car parts to function the way they always have. I guess I'm just old fashioned.
You need to learn to adapt, its people like you that keep saying pay for cabs and not for the better priced and better service like uber. I can see this working and as soon as those regulations make sense the sooner this can go on the road, it might even prevent more accidents.
This actually increases safety as the driver can see an "integrated picture of what's behind the car at a single glance. The driver will no longer have to look at three separate mirrors to get the "whole story."
One is that the camera is much smaller than a mirror, which means less drag, which means better fuel economy
Another is, like you guys are saying, it can integrate all of the "mirrors" into a single rearview display.
Last is, now this becomes another detector that the car's computer can access for driving assistance and/or self-driving.
How often has your mirror glass spontaneously busted?
And how often do people have screen failures on car electronics?
It will never happen, just like fully electric braking.
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