All of us have been fooled by a car rear view mirror before as to the distance to another object. Sometimes things seem closer, sometimes more distant depending on the rearview mirror. Many car mirrors even have a notation on them, you may have seen this; “objects appear to be closer than they really are”, and perhaps this helps clarify my point here. Okay, so, let’s talk about all this.
You see, it would be nice to not have to look at super small objects in a rearview mirror like they’re on your iPhone. Is there a way to avoid this problem? Sure there is, one way is to use high definition video cameras and bigger screens for our cars. This could really help with performance cars or delivery vehicles that do a lot of backing.
Now, recently there was an interesting article on the GizMag Tech website titled; “Infiniti EMERG-E Demonstrator Makes World Debut” Posted Jul 3, 2012 and one of the features of this sexy, sleek Infinity sports car is a high-tech rearview mirror, so there’s no extra parasitic drag for the drivers. rearview mirrors that protrude. The side of the car, more of a fledgling mirror with a little video camera inside, very cool, and it looks totally cool.
Now, I would like to make a suggestion to these engineers, because they may not think like us intense drivers that we will use the car. You see, owners and drivers will require looks, but we demand absolute performance, and we also want the bells and whistles to serve our will. You know, like a cup holder that will clip on to our drinks and hold them in a 3G banked turn, or when heading to 60mph from zero in 2.6 seconds. Who needs their drink all over the car or dashboard at full stop?
Next, if a high performance driver is really going to use this because he also needs to know what’s behind him, like how far back is the last one he passed, or if there are cars with light bars on top, or cyclists with police equipment on board. Having a high definition video camera should probably be a standard feature in all vehicles of this type, but also in delivery vehicles, at least for security. In fact, I hope you will please consider all this and think about it. Please let me know if you have any new innovative ideas along this line of thinking.