Mirrorless Trucks Gain Heavy Favor In NHTSA Proposal

[wdb]

I think it's a fine idea. I'm curious though about how it's implemented. The mirrors on a semi, box truck, or even a large pickup pulling a travel trailer, are pretty big. At first blush I'd think that any screen meant to replace them would also have to be pretty large. Where do they put that on the interior of the vehicle?

So I found a company name in the article and did a little digging.

https://www.stoneridge.com/mirroreye/

In a large cab there is a lot of room for the screen, especially on the passenger side. But it has to be creating a pretty big blind spot on the driver's side in particular. It's like a 6-inch wide A pillar. An interesting idea with a challenging dilemna methinks.

[Ecky]

Originally Posted by Tahoe_Hybrid

OLED screens are great but suffer from burn in pricey you can place the video screens close to the driver as well no more needing to look over

Any links to some OLED screens you'd recommend? I couldn't find any with analog inputs from the factory, so I've started looking into using a Raspberry Pi to either convert analog signals to HDMI, or to stream video from IP cameras.

Old pics but still relevant:

[JSH]

Originally Posted by wdb

I think it's a fine idea. I'm curious though about how it's implemented. The mirrors on a semi, box truck, or even a large pickup pulling a travel trailer, are pretty big. At first blush I'd think that any screen meant to replace them would also have to be pretty large. Where do they put that on the interior of the vehicle?

So I found a company name in the article and did a little digging.

https://www.stoneridge.com/mirroreye/

In a large cab there is a lot of room for the screen, especially on the passenger side. But it has to be creating a pretty big blind spot on the driver's side in particular. It's like a 6-inch wide A pillar. An interesting idea with a challenging dilemna methinks.

Yes, the screens will go on the A pillar. It does increase the A pillar blind spot but it is smaller than the combined blind spot from the A pillar + the glass mirror.

[Tahoe_Hybrid]

Originally Posted by wdb

I think it's a fine idea. I'm curious though about how it's implemented. The mirrors on a semi, box truck, or even a large pickup pulling a travel trailer, are pretty big. At first blush I'd think that any screen meant to replace them would also have to be pretty large. Where do they put that on the interior of the vehicle?

So I found a company name in the article and did a little digging.

https://www.stoneridge.com/mirroreye/

In a large cab there is a lot of room for the screen, especially on the passenger side. But it has to be creating a pretty big blind spot on the driver's side in particular. It's like a 6-inch wide A pillar. An interesting idea with a challenging dilemma methinks.

single large screen design duh.. this solves the issue
the turn signal would also turn the screen on when the signal is enabled (prevents driver from being distracted)

[Tahoe_Hybrid]

Originally Posted by Ecky

Any links to some OLED screens you'd recommend? I couldn't find any with analog inputs from the factory, so I've started looking into using a Raspberry Pi to either convert analog signals to HDMI, or to stream video from IP cameras.

the screen quality is excellent at lest a 9.5 of 10...
i tested it in store.. i suggest pulling the batteries though...

2x
samsung 10.1"

https://www.target.com/p/samsung-10-...t/-/A-76895516
https://www.ebay.com/itm/4K-Car-Dash...cAAOSwRL1dci7f



both use sony image sensor

then stream over WiFi (says it has live view ) and it has redundancy if one camera fails