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New Car Sensor System Simulates Birds-Eye View
narramissic writes "Remember when you had to turn around in your seat to parallel park? Ok, maybe you still do, but if you drive a Nissan, those days may soon be behind you. The company's 'Around View Monitor system' displays a virtual bird's-eye view of the car and what's around it. Video from four small video cameras with wide-angle lenses — two mounted on the underside of the wing mirrors, one at the front under the grill and one at the rear under the license plate — is displayed on the navigation system monitor so that it appears to be a view from above the car and sonar sensors at each corner of the vehicle provide an audible warning when it is coming close to an object or person. And as if that weren't enough... the system also projects the car's future course based on the current direction of the wheels."
I mean, Toyota has this system where the car parks itself (http://www.hiptechblog.com/2006/02/25/toyotas-parallel-parking-assist/). So tell me, how does this Nissan toy improve over that?
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I've had stops like that. Really, there's no good reason why it should be illegal to gun cops like this down. They are parasites, and extremely dangerous. They erode the credibility of our legal system and violate the nigh-sacred trust we put in them. They are, in all seriousness, the worst people in the world. Worse than the more archetypical criminals, because they masquerade as the "good guys."
Never trust a cop.