Re: Back up cameras

On 3/18/2022 3:03 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
snip...
> If you are only interested in seeing the license plate of the car behind
> you while stopped at traffic lights, why can't you put your foot on the
> brake pedal (you're already pressing on it at the traffic light), and
> put the car in reverse to activate the backup camera display?  Yeah,
> your backup lights will come on, but if you're peering at their license
> plate then there would be a reason to do so, and maybe you want to get
> their attention, too.

All of this assuming that the state involved even has front plates -- not 
all do. I got a free Garmin "Dash Cam Mini 2" from Amazon when the package 
from my original order for same vanished into the ether; after four or five 
  days they shipped me a replacement; when that showed up so did the 
original "vanished" package but when I contacted them they said to just 
keep both. See, they aren't always the evil empire. <g>

I gave some thought to doing a rear view with the second one. This model is 
minuscule and has no display but saves automatically in a collision and 
saves videos and snaps pictures with a voice command but any live view is 
only on a linked smart phone but I wouldn't be looking at it in real time 
anyway. Conveniently their phone app supports multiple cameras 
simultaneously. Might be worth an experiment. Or I might just sell the 
thing and buy beer with the proceeds...

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