He must have been headed to the dealer to have it fixed.

I have been doing this for years. Bought a wireless back up camera from Amazon with the screen in a rearview mirror clip on thing for $80. It has been great to be able to actually see behind my Travel Trailer.

Not sure why this is not a standard feature for all trailers. It is so cheap I don’t understand why.

I don’t know of any states that won’t allow a trailer/boat up to 8’, some states allow up to 8’6”, even fewer allow up to 10’. None that I know of allow towing that wide without a special permit or license.

No, most cars really don’t. And SUVs typically don’t either, depending on pillar thickness. This is not rocket science. Set your mirrors correctly, and you can reduce the ‘blind spots’ to less than a bicycle’s width.

It’s actually possible to remove virtually all of your rear corner blind spot using the side mirrors. You just need to angle them out until you can’t see the side of your car anymore. Unfortunately, this relies on the ability to have a good view out the back and side windows with the interior rear view mirror which is…

Uhm... yeah that’s not true at all. Your side mirrors are meant to show beside your car. There shouldn’t be more than an inch or so of overlapped field-of-view between either side mirror and your rearview. If you set your mirrors that way, there is no blindspot, and you can see everything beside, behind, and around…

Now there will be two reasons you see Land Rovers on the side of the highway.

The blind spot alert is better than HAVING A BLIND SPOT

No. If you set your mirrors the SAE recommended way, your “blind spots” are pretty much gone. You still need to turn your head, but not nearly as much. This assumes you drive anything like midsized and smaller, and only on straightish, parallel roads. For any other condition you need to turn your head more.

A buddy of mine did something like this a long time ago on his own. No fancy software, just a camera mounted to the back of his trailer hooked up to a screen inside his cab. He could clearly see if there was another car behind him or one about to pass etc. I think it’s cool that the trailer is “invisible” here, but…

If your mirrors are set properly (not the way 99% of people set them) you don’t have a blind spot that a vehicle could fit within. You should be able to see it in your rear view, then before it disappears from your rear view mirror, it’ll appear in your side mirror, and before it disappears from your side mirror,…