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by BeetleB 12 days ago
Weird comment. This whole thread is about them. Of course I know it's a thing. My question is how do you look in the rear when mud is on the camera? Or lots of water droplets?
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I don’t understand what you are asking. I drive in very rainy Miami and I haven’t had an issue, but not much mud here. I do have a rear wiper and the mirror can be switched to analog.
The thread is about cars that don't have an analog rear view mirror.

(Personally, I didn't know that was a thing, but I do know people in older cars buy rear view camera mirrors where they replace the analog one).

Apologies, I didn’t grasp that the Luce didn’t have an actual rear view mirror, the kind with mirrored surface. I couldn’t find any pics online. My Hyundai I5’s just flips between analog and digital with a pull on the housing. So does my brother’s Blazer EV and my dad’s Lexus TX, this isn’t new.

I’d think lacking an analog mirror would run afoul of some regulation, but then there’s that Polastar that doesn’t have a rear window:) Cheers.