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When reversing it's difficult to know how fast you are going
without turning around to look at the dashboard. The
extent of the head movement required to see the
speedometer would mean taking your eye off the road for
too long to be safe, particularly at the higher speeds
attainable in the
backwards direction. On top of that I'm
not even sure that current speedometers register reverse
speed. The idea is for a speedometer embedded in the
centre of the back seat that will give the reversing motorist
an 'at a glance' reading of his or her backward velocity. The
needle would move anti-clockwise through negative
numbers.
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Oh dear. You reverse like I do. [+] |
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Would the backseat have an odometer too ? |
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a deadly and pointless distraction. also the number would be meaningless because it gives a very poor gauge of the danger involved. It's either and OCD type "i must know" thing or a "I proudly drive like a fool" thing, in either case I don't like it. |
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// Would the backseat have an odometer too ? // |
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Surprisingly, most odometers still do not record distance
traveled backwards. |
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//a deadly and pointless distraction// |
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I really don't believe the speedometer in my car tells how fast I go when I drive in reverse. Now I have to go check that. It's going to be dangerous because if it turns out it does I'll have to check how fast I can go. Thanks for that. |
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That way you'll know exactly how fast you were going
when you hit that pedestrian you didn't see coming
because cameras don't have peripheral vision. That will be
very helpful for the police officer filing the report, as well
as the prosecution in the ensuing lawsuit. |
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Right, because both my '93 XJ (Cherokee to non-
Jeepgeeks) and my '76 Deuce* have parking sensors. |
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* my Deuce does have a back-up cam, but one I installed
myself. I use it to check the Montana-sized blind spot
behind the tailgate before I start reversing, except in the
winter, when it doesn't work. |
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Granted. I just wanted to point out that some of us live in
parts of the world where parking sensors have yet to be
invented. |
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This is excellent. My dear auld ma lives in the far west of mainland UK, in an area accessible only by boat, helicopter or +40 miles of very wind-y very narrow single track road. If, on one of my visits, I had a reverse speedometer, I might, upon encountering a car coming towards me, be more likely to race backwards to a passing place to let them past, rather than my usual policy of proceeding forward at unreduced pace, driving the other driver off the road into the loch. Croissant, then, for improving the lives of Dutch tourists in Scotland. |
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