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Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday January 02 2020, @04:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the What-could-possibly-go-wrong dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Mirrors have been an integral part of motor vehicles for over a century. The low tech solution has solved the major visibility issues involved with driving and now car makers think they can do one better using cameras instead of mirrors. This may be an improvement in large trucks where visibility using mirrors can be poor to the point that obstacles directly in front and behind the vehicle cannot be seen but for cars it may prove to be a theft opportunity.

Best not to mount a mirror, or indeed a camera, directly in the line of fire of a neighboring car door in the parking lot. Maybe someone should tell them about the practicalities of life?

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  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Thursday January 02 2020, @11:43AM (1 child)

    by Nuke (3162) on Thursday January 02 2020, @11:43AM (#938552)

    The end game is to have cameras all over the car, projected over the inside surface so that you can see through all of the car from the inside

    So car interiors will be bare spheres painted matt white? That sounds cosy.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @05:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @05:44PM (#938702)

    That's unlikely, you'd still want to have windows that you can look through in case the camera system breaks while driving. Even with AI control over the car, you'd still want to be able to see what's around you in case you need to operate manually. It's one of the reasons why jets still have pilot controls despite them being capable of handling the entire flight without manual intervention of the pilot. You still want to be able to override the computer if there's a problem with the system in the rare case where the system sensors are broken in a way that the pilot's physical senses aren't.