Polestar 4 first look: When no rear window makes for a better car
Polestar 4 first look: When no rear window makes for a better car
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Polestar 4 first look: When no rear window makes for a better car
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Camera dies can't see out back. Genius
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Use side mirrors until you get it repaired.
Driving without a center mirror, or with an obstructed mirror, isn’t exactly a unique thing. You don’t even need a center mirror in many places to pass a driving test. The side mirrors are more important.
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I hate the tv screen rearview mirrors. Give me back my window!!!
As someone who has a Volvo now, and likes their attention to detail, I’m willing to hold judgement until I can try it in person. Apparently the author of this said it was interesting in person.
If it’s an OLED, with a high refresh rate, that can get really dim at night, and handle rain / glare well, I’m down. And wider and unobstructed FOV is a pretty compelling concept. But a bright ass low frame rate screen is pretty distracting and nauseating, and that’s where a lot of these things fail.
That's the problem - you're replacing a window with a camera. Some rain, dust, or a bike rack, and your view is now worse than the window.
How much of influence did Volvo have over polestar 4? I know they started to go their separate ways and Volvo stopped funding polestar quite recently.
I, too, dislike screens as rearview mirrors. When you use a normal mirror, you are focusing on something that is likely around the same distance from your eyes as the car in front of you. With a screen, you're focusing on the screen instead of the light reflected off of it, meaning that your eyes are going from focusing on something that's a few car lengths ahead of you to something that's a few feet from you, then back to something that's in the distance again. It takes noticeably longer to check what's going on behind you and takes your eyes further "off the road" as a result.