jsmay311
Active Member
Once activated by R, keep the reverse cam on until I'm going 3mph or so in D. Sometimes you need to return to D to park, but then the camera cuts off and you can't see your rearward reference point. If you really are intending to drive off somewhere after R then D, you will quickly hit 3mph within a second and get your map back. Seems like a reasonable trade-off. Probably can't have nice things because, lawyers.
Other cars do this (the Gen 1 Volt kept the rear camera up until you hit 5mph going forward), so I can't imagine it's excluded in Teslas for legal or liability reasons.