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I hate the tv screen rearview mirrors. Give me back my window!!!
As someone who has a Volvo now, and likes their attention to detail, I’m willing to hold judgement until I can try it in person. Apparently the author of this said it was interesting in person.
If it’s an OLED, with a high refresh rate, that can get really dim at night, and handle rain / glare well, I’m down. And wider and unobstructed FOV is a pretty compelling concept. But a bright ass low frame rate screen is pretty distracting and nauseating, and that’s where a lot of these things fail.
That's the problem - you're replacing a window with a camera. Some rain, dust, or a bike rack, and your view is now worse than the window.
No doubt. It isn’t obstruction proof. The obstructions are just different. You’re not dealing with heads, head wrests, pillars and roof lines, you’re dealing with dirt, rain, etc.
If the brightness and frame rate are not an issue, I’d probably take the camera over the mirror. I live in a fairly temperate area, and my Volvo’s current camera doesn’t get obstructed that often. But it’s also just a back up camera.
I test drove my last car on a shitty winter day so I could get real with it.