eric-alkema
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If it is a good idea to place the displays for the wing mirror cameras above the steering wh… er yoke, why not put the display for the rear view camera there as well? I seems like that would make it easier for your brain to stitch together view that you can’t see out the windows. Or is the central “mirror” required to be an actual mirror? (that would seem like a problem for the full solar option)
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I would want to get the rear deck solar panels for the bonus charging and to keep the brutal California sun out of the greenhouse that is the inside of a car. But I would not buy if I did not feel like I could see what was going on around me. The rear view camera seems like a perfect substitute for a mirror (assuming that it didn’t get blinded by bright lights or gunk) but it is the side cameras that have me worried. I am imagining driving on a three lane highway, overtaking a truck in the slow lane and needing to know where the faster car in the next lane is and what the car next to me in the left lane is up to and is the car behind him about to do something silly. As it is now, I can’t keep an eye on everyone at once, but I can scan rear, side, side mirror, over the shoulder quickly and smoothly and with depth perception. Also peripheral vision lets me see out the side and in the side mirror at once (or over the shoulder without losing out the side, etc). With side cameras with unknown coverage and uncertain monitor placement I worry that I will lose my situational awareness. It is what has kept me from making a reservation.