Rear Facing Camera - Text Backwards

People are used to using a mirror to back-up so they made it look like a mirror view would.

 

If you were parallel parking on the right hand side of the street with the rear facing camera image reversed, you would see the curb on the left hand side of the image. For some, that would not be fun!

 

Yeah! And how about fixing the mirrors while they're at it!

 

As stated above, it's the mirror issue. People are accustomed to rear view mirrors. Having the camera image unreversed would be confusing.

Tom

 

Yes, but then they would be required to mount the display in the rear window so you had to turn around to see it..

 

I have several anecdotes, but remember the plural of anecdotes is not data.

We had a 'modder' here on Prius chat who wanted to black out the READY light on his dash. Once you do that, you have lied to every first responder in the world who was promised they could know when the HV Battery was engaged during a wreck. Making your reverse camera work backward puts every other driver of your car at risk. I am betting your insurance would instantly be void. (anytime you are in reverse)

My younger brother once mounted his handle bar grips on the 'other' end of the bar, pushing away with your left hand made the motorcycle faster, the clutch was on the right and the front brake on the left. No one who had ever ridden a motorcycle could ride it, the better you were, the harder it was. Folks who had never ridden before only found it awkward.

In 1977, the US NHTSA decided that a Motorcycle that steered with the rear tire might be safer than front wheel steering. (Try driving a grocery cart around the store backward. That is 1 MPH, now imagine it at highway speed with 2 fewer wheels.)
Once they found that no-one in the NHTSA could ride what they had designed longer than 2.5 seconds, they hired professional road racers to ride it. They were worse at it than folks who had never ridden before.

In my case, as an example, I have 45 years of habit and expectation how a rear view device works. I am going to need $0 deductible even to get your car out of the shop if I build it.

 

I wish there was an indicator, a light, a beeper, or something that let you know when a thread is in jest, a lampoon, or otherwise not serious.

I was gonna' suggest twisting around and looking into a mirror held up to the display...

As for crossed controls, I once owned a Famous James, throttle on the right handlegrip, twist forward to accelerate... but the kicker was the right side of the gas tank lever shift!!!!!! At least the clutch was on the left.

Let's see... we could mount a mirror on the license plate, then point the camera at the mirror.....

 

If you can't see a Vampires reflection in a mirror, what are the odds he would show up on the rear view camera, and would you run him over if he didn't !