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I know someone a while back posted his contraption that was a mirror attached to the windshield on the passenger side for seeing around people in front of you. Well I wanted a more high tech solution to getting around the slow morons on their cellphones in the fast lane.

So my ideas was to use some type of small camera attached under the front passenger side fender and feed the video to a dash mount lcd.

I'm thinking about using these rearview camers I found on ebay... prob is some of the cameras flip the image, but it wouldn't really matter. it's just to see if something is in the right lane ahead. Dunno how well it will work, but if it does it'll be cool.

Camera is something along the lines of this, although not this exact item.
http://cgi.ebay.com/123-7-TFT-LCD-In...QQcmdZViewItem

 
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you can find alot cheaper ones......

and dont get the night vision ones......cuz they're useless.......they work but you cant see ****......

just get one with a good CCD and made sure its wide angle.....

 
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i dunno if u want a wide angle if your looking up front... :-/ and dont need a rear view camera to do it. You can easily look around the net and order a noname camera that the other companies stamp their name on. Should have a connection that the monitor can take with out an adapter... SO basicaly if you design the setup urself, your going to do a lot better (IMO) then if you go with one of these cheap premade ebay sets.

good luck though and nice idea.

 
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Yeah, my mirror suction cup keeps falling off and the mirror is useless in the rain (from the water on the windshield). My only recommendation would be to try to attach the mirror to your passenger mirror or mount it in the mirror housing, this would give you further viewing range. Keep us posted because I love this idea.

 
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Oh I'm not going with that ebay one I linked.. I just linked it as an example to give the general idea.

I'm going to do some testing with a regular digital camera: going to park my car behind my wife's next time I am at my inlaw's. They always have a bunch of cars in the driveway so I can simulate the road condition. I'll position the camera at different parts along the front passenger bumper and see what it sees when i snap a pic. I hope to be able to drill a hole for the camera in the air intake of the bumper, sort of where the fog lights would go. That may not be far enough to the right to be useful though.

Wideangle may or may not be necessary. Definitely don't want a camera that reverses the image if I can help it. It's a little weird looking for things to use on the internet kuz no one seems to have done this before, only rearview applications.

It will be so nice if this works. Since lowering my car I even have a hard time seeing around regular cars... i'm just low enough that I can't see through their windows.