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Honda e, the compact electric vehicle that’s coming to market in spring 2020, is bringing its side-view mirrors inside. The company confirmed Tuesday that its side-camera-mirror system, which was on the prototype version, will be a standard feature when the car enters production. The side-ca...
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/28/the-all-electric-honda-e-is-bringing-its-side-view-mirrors-inside/
(Score: 4, Informative) by bob_super on Wednesday May 29 2019, @12:59AM (10 children)
Have you looked at car mirrors recently ?
- mirror
- motor
- camera
- blinker
- blind spot light
- defroster
I'm probably forgetting something.
The point is a modern "mirror" is a >$800 assembly. Camera-on-a-stick is a lot cheaper BOM, and a lot less wind drag
(will it be a cheaper repair? LOL!)
(Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 29 2019, @01:53AM (7 children)
Mine's just a piece of silvered glass in a plastic housing that you adjust by reaching out the window.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday May 29 2019, @06:12AM (6 children)
So is mine, but we are a shrinking minority.
Most cars on the road today have very expensive decorations on their side, ideally positioned for sudden destruction, yet seemingly useless to the person in the driver seat.
I want the camera solution to become ubiquitous, because SUV and pick-up mirrors are just at the right height to threaten me when I split lanes.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 29 2019, @11:45AM (5 children)
Right, but mine's going to stay just a piece of silvered glass in a plastic housing that you adjust by reaching out the window, even if I have to remove features that come from the factory. I don't want complex, secondary-but-necessary features designed in such a way that I can't easily repair or replace them. I swear, one of these days I'm going to end up just saying "fuck new cars entirely" and restore an old Jeep CJ or some such. Well, not so much restore as build a FrankenJeep that looks like the old ones when they rolled off the showroom floor but has a newer, more efficient engine and such without an onboard computer of any kind.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday May 29 2019, @04:20PM (4 children)
Gotta be an official "antique", or they will hound you with emission compliance.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 29 2019, @06:58PM (2 children)
Heh, nah. Not in TN they won't. There aren't any sorts of inspections required on vehicles here at all.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday May 30 2019, @01:29AM (1 child)
While most vehicles on the roads are unmodified, and therefore do not justify a full inspection structure just for emissions, every time I see one of the rolling rustball deathtraps on the road, I wonder whether the European's mandatory safety inspections (brakes/tires/lights/...) wouldn't be a bad thing...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday May 30 2019, @10:49AM
Being able to hand out tickets for not having one of the above is sufficient. Less costly to the population both in that most people don't have to worry about it and in that they don't need a bureaucracy created to administrate it. The states that have wisely gotten rid of it recognized this and changed the law.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Thursday May 30 2019, @01:15AM
Soon not in WA state either. On January first, twenty-twenty, our emission stations all close and emission requirements disappear statewide. So he might this summer, but next year it's a car modders free-for-all here!
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by epitaxial on Wednesday May 29 2019, @03:10AM
Even if all those items fail I still have a functional mirror.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 29 2019, @07:57AM
Ok, so you mean, a $50 assembly sold for >$800?
This is not 1995 anymore. Screens are dime a dozen and cameras are much cheaper and better solution than a mirror with housing.