I truly don’t understand how in 2023 with all the digitalization we have cars with backup cameras from at best a 2015 mid range smartphone. What’s preventing a manufacturer like bmw for an example from putting a high end sony sensor like the one on the iPhone 15 into their camera modules?

  • colin_staples@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago
    1. Cost
    2. Software. The sensor is only part of it.
    3. The existing cameras are good enough. You don’t need 4K/60fps to reverse your car.
    • thespiceraja@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This. Plus the fact that they procure the cameras almost 2-3 years in advance of the production date. The cameras on a 2023 car are surprisingly good even in low light.

    • Twombls@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The existing cameras are good enough. You don’t need 4K/60fps to reverse your car.

      Also typically when resolution goes up on small cameras like that. Low light performance goes down. It’s why we saw a ton of phones in like 2015 everyone tried out high resolution cameras in phones. Dropped them after a year. And now they are finally coming back as image processing improves.

    • Endo_Dizzy@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m still using my mirrors for 80% of the work. Backup camera is just for the initial vector and to clear me of any unsuspecting children in a parking lot