Most car reverse cameras for 360 degree cameras provide very good visibility outside of the rear of the car. I don't necessarily see the problem with having a rear windscreen, but that's up to the buyer
At first I had a little bit of skepticism. I figured it would be useful when the back is full of cargo or whatever, but limited beyond that.
A year on and I scarcely use the "real" mirror. The image on the camera is brighter at night, has less obstruction of the cars pillars and such, and it's automatic gain control reduces the amount of blinding a big truck behind me can cause
The rear view cameras on cars I've driven are often useless even in parking scenarios because of that.
When the backup camera isn't covered in grime it really helps with parking though.
I often find that I forget to wipe the rear window because I have no trouble seeing with the camera.
However the wiper does go over the area covered by the camera, so with snow in particular the wiper works wonders.
The standard is that head units have a composite video input that simply gets switched to whenever you put it into reverse, and any overlays are done in the head unit.
These are utterly standard parts, and the entire auto industry could die tomorrow and you would still have zero problem sourcing this part for decades to come.
It doesn't matter which make or model of car you have.
Interestingly enough, the actual "backup camera" is mounted lower than the rear view camera, down by the license plate. When you run the rear sprayer, it actually squirts a bit of fluid over the lense of that camera too. Still not as good a solution as Mercedes, who just hides the camera behind a flap when it's not in use, but better than nothing
Kids aren't always smart, observant and logical, pets - doubly so. And even the smartest (but very unlucky) adult can just stumble and land down right under your tires.
Quite improbable - for sure, but not exactly impossible.
A mirror allows you to quickly judge the velocity of the other vehicle so you can consider moving out of its way to avoid a collision. There’s too much lag and uncertainty with a rear-view camera.
In the Tesla When you indicate left or right, it brings up the side cameras on screen.
When reversing, the rear view camera is brought up on screen.
You can also hit the camera button when driving to bring up side and rear view cameras on screen at will.
These are all entire industries that already power society-vital functions. Embrace it!
My point was just that the Luddite “computers are bad” argument is silly when all modern cars and planes and everything else is fly-by-wire. If computers fail, the world fails - good thing engineering isn’t just a faf and reliability engineering actually works!