TurboFroggy
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The Chevy Bolt, which has surround cameras and a trick rearview mirror/camera combo, has a little squerter/washer on their rear camera.
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The vw system has the camera in the body behind the rear logo, when selecting reverse the logo flips up and the camera is exposed.
Except if you want/ need the camera while driving forward. I use it, for instance when determining when to stop while parking in my garage. I reference a grout line in a specific tile.Now that's an excellent idea, and seems like a simple fix.
Now that's an excellent idea, and seems like a simple fix.
I used it on a bathroom shower door, it was horrible. Thankfully paint remover took it right off.The Rustoleum products claims to be crystal clear.
Nope. This is a problem with 100% of Teslas.
I'm very much interested in a contraption that cleans it, however I think it's quite diffucult to make something that's both functional, reliable and looks ok. At least in climates where snow is your biggest RV-cam issue.
In principle, there are several places to draw power to this contraption, and plenty of space inside the liftgate to hide harnesses, motors etc
Just don't use it at all!On most days, I can clean the camera with a cloth as I depart from home, and on the outset of my journey I have a crystal clear rear camera image. When I get to my destination 20 minutes later, it is dirty enough I can't use it again. If I have to drive in reverse when I get there, I often wind up having to get out and clean it, or rely on my mirrors and turning my head.
Is this problem common? Surely there is a way to minimize this. It seems like a design flaw, but the only reliable fix I have thought of would be camera wipers, and that just seems more hilarious than practical. Maybe blinking camera eyelids. Or some tear ducts.
More practically, I'm imagining aero- and hydro-dynamic aids that steer dirt and water runoff away from the camera. How do they get so dirty so quickly?
+1 yes, this. My rear camera is on most of the time.I have the camera up anytime I'm on a multi-lane road with fairly heavy traffic so I can better see my blind spots. If the camera were covered most of the time we'd lose a big benefit of being able to use it while driving forward.
The rear of most all cars will always get quite dirty, quite fast. Due to aerodynamics, and the shape of your car, your car will create a massive low pressure pocket at the rear. When the roads are wet, the liquid grabs hold of the grime on the road, and your tires throw that up into the air. Then aerodynamics kick-in and forces that grime riddled water to wrap around the rear of your car is it gets sucked in by the low pressure. The water (with grime, don't forget about the grime) finds a nice new smooth surface to adhere to... your camera lens.Minor aside . . . if the rear camera is so hard to keep clean for clear images, how do the AP cameras stay clean enough for reasonable system level reliability? (Pardon the naive question, but I am one of those early pioneers with an old fashion classic S85)
How about a self-cleaning function cleans the entire rear camera before and after each time the car is put in park?
Doh!! Next best thing must be the emergency exit button in the trunk itself, then.
Just realized I need to build some kind of ladder that the kids can extend from the seats and crawl out after buckling off their seat belts.
Or maybe there's a way to build a mechanism that slides the seats automatically all the way out, turn (180) and lay back so they get easy access to the camera with my micofiber
Any of the cars I've owned so far that was equipped with rear view camera had this problem.Nope. This is a problem with 100% of Teslas.
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