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by jjav 27 days ago
> Rear view cameras are better than rear view mirrors. The field of view is better.

As long as they work, yes. This is part of the trend to make everything more fragile with lots of failure conditions. There are many electrical parts + software needed to make that camera+screen work, any of which might break eventually.

A mirror is just a mirror, failure modes are few and unlikely. Even if it cracks it still works.

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> A mirror is just a mirror, failure modes are few and unlikely. Even if it cracks it still works.

Are your side mirrors adjusted properly? Do you know the SAE standard on how to adjust your side mirrors? [1] (The actual paper is paywalled.)

[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15131074/how-to-adjus...