What cars are you supporting at the moment, and what other cars on your road map?
Tell HN: We built a solar-charging wireless backup camera for your car
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#52ugging into the odb port is dubious. I will surelly never get close to this device. a usb or power socket version would look much more professional.
They're also using information from OBD for car power state, backup state, and speed (to turn the camera off when you're going 10MPH or more). For the way they decided to implement it, I think they've got a slick device. How they secure the data streams and communication with the dongle would be my big questions.
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#53This page has by far the worst scrolling interaction I've ever experienced. First up : no scroll bar so there is literally no visual cue that I need to scroll. Scrolling "activates" the next portion of content. Somewhere around the middle part : I can scroll and see the scrollbar, but WAIT! Another portion of the page starts hiding the scroll and hijacking the scrolling to show something. Uggggh again? Scroll some mo…
holy cow, every time there's a Show HN, there's always someone who shits on the web-page "hijacking" the scrolling. It's annoying commentary because you're looking at it through a very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about. For non-technical people, it's more intuitive having the screen-focused on the main content.
> very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about
If I thought that was a really nice product and sent the link to my dad (he likes gadgets and cars, after all), he'd have no clue what to do after landing on the page. He usually drags the scroll bar to navigate a webpage. Good job on alienating a huge portion of your potential users.
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#54nevere EVER take away a users ability to scroll.
Agree. The site is kind of hard to scroll. The PgDown key doesn't work at the second page. Pictures after full screen pictures with no delimitation is a real turn off.
Re: Tell HN: We built a solar-charging wireless backup camera for your car
#55Are there any anti-theft features for this? Can someone just take the rearvision off my license plate and go home with it?
The RearVision comes with a security tool that is used to attach and remove the camera frame. The camera frame and the OBD adapter are also paired at the factory and will not function in isolation.
Thanks for the info...tell Tyler M I said hi!
Re: Tell HN: We built a solar-charging wireless backup camera for your car
#56This page has by far the worst scrolling interaction I've ever experienced. First up : no scroll bar so there is literally no visual cue that I need to scroll. Scrolling "activates" the next portion of content. Somewhere around the middle part : I can scroll and see the scrollbar, but WAIT! Another portion of the page starts hiding the scroll and hijacking the scrolling to show something. Uggggh again? Scroll some mo…
I can only see top menu, page is blank. I have malware filters.
Which filters? I have ghostery, ublock origin, and a corporate firewall, all of which usually cause me some trouble, but I didn't have any issues with this site.
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#57I am curious how much blacking out the solar cells reduces the incoming power. It certainly looks cooler that way, though.
The solar window is actually transparent. Our PD team is second to none! They were able to make the whole solar assembly look uniformly black while not sacrificing solar efficiency.
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#58Should a fender bender occur, I'd imagine insurance wouldn't cover getting this replaced.
A native backup camera is seemingly more cost-effective.
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#59$499!?!?!
For $130 I can buy two really good quality 1080p dashcams and two 16GB microSDHC cards (I know, not the intended function of this...) and mount one facing forward and one to the rear.
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#60nevere EVER take away a users ability to scroll.
Agree. The site is kind of hard to scroll. The PgDown key doesn't work at the second page. Pictures after full screen pictures with no delimitation is a real turn off.
It's even worse with this site than most like it, since it randomly switches between "scroll slightly to trigger a transition animation" and "scroll normally to go down the page", and you can never predict which it's going to be until you try and wait a few seconds for something to happen.