Stopped at lights in inner London yesterday. Looked to my right, admired the Mercedes CL600. Driver looked to be some "yoof" with baseball cap. Anyway, he was constantly looking at his rear view mirror. I thought he was being vain, when I saw what seemed to be a TV screen at the other end of his mirror. Oh, it was LHD..He was watching some poncy video that included the screen showing "Mercedes..now it's your turn"..
I've never seen that before. How new is it?
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If it is a cathode ray tube receiver then he is likely for a pull as offence to drive m/veh ona road if driver in such a position as to be able to see, directly or by REFLECTION TV receiving apparatus.
Exception to the rule:
view state of the vehicle and its equipment,
location of the vehicle and road,
to assist to see road adjacent to the vehicle,
assist driver to reach his destination.
Con and Use regs 1984
dvd
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I think they're LCD built-into the mirror with some sort of polariser arrangement so it looks like a normal mirror when off.
I've seen them on ebay HongKong as boyracer ICE upgrades, and some car in America on the internet that uses one with a rear reversing safety camera.
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Great - so now we can play 'spot the SUV driver using their mobile, smokin' a fag, negotiating a roundabout AND watching the telly at the same time'.
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I sincerely hope the C&U regs have been updated?
Cathode Ray Tube? what about LCD's?
Receiver? what about DVD players? computer games?
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Its designed to link to a rear facing camera to aid parking, but in theory, you could link it into anything. You could watch TV, DVDs or even play video games on it.
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YEs that was it, albeit his LCD screen was around 1/3 of his mirror width.
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I was in a taxi in Amsterdam (new Mercedes E) last week where the meter was displayed in the mirror presumably LCD. As electronics in the mirror becomes more commor, where are the limits?
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Why not have the whole "mirror" as an LCD screen. Stick a camera out the back and hey presto.....no need for a rear windscreen!
It should be standard in all those supercars with little or no rear visiblility.
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