Would be interesting to make "virtual windows" where you take a camera on the hull and just stream its feed to like the in-flight entertainment system or a wall mounted monitor.
But if the outside of the car gets hot, the inside will too.
It solves a bunch of problems: it gets rid of all the trade-offs between structural integrity and visibility. It reduces costs and makes manufacturing easier. The driver could be anywhere, even in the back seat if that makes sense for some reason.
This seems like it would be extra useful for military vehicles. I wonder if you were to redesign something like the A-10 or F-16 from scratch and you could put the pilot anywhere you want because visibility isn't an issue, would you come up with the same design or would the cockpit end up somewhere strange, like in the back of the plane?
A spherical VR image that resolves to 20/20 acuity is as large as (60 x 360, 60 x 180) = (21600, 10800)px before requisite oversampling, and that’s kind of hard. Then of course those fighter guys has/need better visibility than 20/20 which only makes it harder.
And by the way modern digital image pipelines buffer and delay transfers, sometimes as much as 200ms, which is absurd considering the CPU runs at literally millions of times better clock frequencies and latencies, but that’s what readily available implementations are.
These mean that we are still some time away until such “local remote driving” not just complements but totally replace heat formed and dielectric coated pane of plexiglass.
I guess it eventually will beyond upper edge of atmosphere as glasses don’t work well and vision required surpass human eyeballs, i.e. in interstellar settler’s carriages and planetary orbital fighter jets, but for now and for forward windscreen applications, it makes more sense to just put on panes of plain old transparent aluminum.
EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191
Looks like it was a cockpit camera, not an external camera.