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Old 04-05-2010, 02:38 AM
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Originally Posted by DONONE69 View Post
Agree completely, whats the need for a camera in a car! Can understand if it was a massive vehicle like a big lorry or something with no windows but an x5! iv got 5% tint the whole way round, if your reversing slowly then your reverse sensors will beep anyway!
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No matter what car I drive, after one or two weeks of driving it I get use to the size of it and and have no problems with parking and stuff, but if it helps others then fair enough!
I don't even have backup sensors, and personally would never even need them. People have come to really too much on technology instead of basic driving skills. I feel ABS is a great system to have, but after going to a Porsche driving skill, I learned some great techniques when all redudant safety systems were shut off. In the end, I feel that I gained far more by learning how to control my car than to hope for the best and rely on electronics to do what I should know how to do on my own. Backing up is the most simple of things, so if we can't even do that w/o multiple cameras, it's only going to go downhill from there. This reminds me of the story posted here where a new X5 owner is trying to sue the dealership because he used the camera system only to backup and still hit something. When did common sense go out the door? To each their own.
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