The Cadillac CT6 introduced a number of new technological firsts for General Motors, including the Omega platform and its various manufacturing feats. It also brought about the first rearview camera mirror system. The folks at Nissan seem to fancy the idea because it too has introduced a similar technology.
Well, not really similar, but identical. The brand’s first rearview camera mirror will debut with the 2018 Nissan Armada. Like General Motors’ technology, it can switch between a traditional mirror and a camera with a toggle button. The camera allows the driver to see behind the vehicle even if passengers or cargo obstructs the view. The feature will be standard on the 2018 Nissan Armada Platinum.
GM offers the rearview camera mirror on a handful of models, though most of them are Cadillacs. The Cadillac XT5, Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac CTS and aforementioned CT6 may all be equipped with the rearview camera mirror. The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV can also be equipped with it as well.
Automakers will likely continue to turn to cameras to remedy pesky blind spots and obstructions, so it’s likely not the last automaker we’ll see take a page from GM’s original design.
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Great work GM! This tech has already saved lives, and will save many more. Now, where’s the complainers about GM mistakes, are they going to come on this page and say “GM got this one right, well done GM!”, well are they???
[crickets…]
Y’know folks, one engineer and a few beancounters made awful mistakes, that’s absolutely true. That needed correction, and after a few CEO’s who couldn’t handle it, at last Barra came along and properly handled it. No, the result wasn’t rainbows and unicorns, but it got handled and now it’s over. And it certainly wasn’t deliberate poisoning of entire nations, as other car companies have done.
But when GM comes along and literally saves lives, which this tech will do every day, where’s the CONGRATULATIONS? Are the parents of teens who avoid a crash (very simply and easily and and then quickly forget about the crash they didn’t have), are the parents of those teens going on TV and saying to Matt Lauer “Because GM licenced this tech to Nissan, that saved my daughters life at the mall car park today!”
See how the mainstream media works? Yeah, Murdoch’s fox, especially…
Another Japanese company coping a GM idea. If you can’t beat them, copy them!
Another outside company paying licensing fees for a GM idea. If you can’t originate before them, congratulate them, and pay a small fee to get the tech.
(And enjoy saving lives. Just don’t tell the folks who only like you to make money without saving lives with anyone else’s idea. Remember, only save lives with your own in-house ideas, or get shamed by the internet for paying a small fee for a great idea.)