That’s cool and all, but can car manufacturers stop fixing things that aren’t broke like mirrors and physical buttons.
I personally want real mirrors, but I do understand them going after this advice it’s such an easy target for improved aerodynamics
Didn’t Tesla try to do this in model X, but were forced to add real mirrors?
I am wondering what allowed apple to patent this.
You can patent ideas that aren’t even physically possible, let alone legally allowed on the road.
Assuming that it is legalized now Apple already has a patent on it so anyone wanting to implement it would have to pay their tax.
It looks like their patent is technically different as they display the “mirror” with the heads up display projector in the dash instead of the main display or an LCD screen on the A-pillars.
In the US at least, wing mirrors are required by the DOT but can be supplemented with digital alternatives
“Sorry officer, my car updated last night and now my mirrors don’t work!”
Cameras break, the Mk.1 Eyeball with a mirror always works. Well, always works for anyone that can legally drive.
Whatever, put cameras in and have them bluetooth to my Apple toothbrush and save it to the iCloud, fine, but “replace” the mirrors? As in rely entirely on cameras? Why? Leave the mirrors there. There’s no reason not to have mirrors on the car. Extremely cheap and reliable feedback system that never malfunctions. Putting new tech in cars is all well and good right up to the point where they start creating unnecessary failure points by getting rid of solutions that already work.
It’s like when they started getting rid of aux inputs in favor of USB and/or bluetooth. Why? An aux input is such a trivial thing that would cost nothing to implement, takes up almost no space on the dashboard, and always works. Granted, most current devices don’t use aux cables (which I also think is a mistake for the same reasons), but that’s only been the case very recently, and car companies started getting rid of them years ago when plenty of devices still had them. Plus, they’re still useful if you just want to plug an audio source into a car quickly and easily with zero chance of failure, even if you’d have to use an adapter. It’s nice to have the option to use USB or bluetooth, but getting rid of the aux altogether is nonsense. Getting rid of mirrors? Nonsense and potentially dangerous.
The ioniq 6 in South Korea has cameras for mirrors but I’d usually always like a mirror fallback in case the camera system fails at any point.
There are some trucks that have this but instead of a projector they have a small vertical long screen on the pillar next to the window
