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Many different solutions have been devised around the world to make reversing easier for the driver. Most of them involve difficult installation of additional equipment on the car.
If the car is not equipped with a rear view camera, the owner must constantly keep his sense of size at the right level. Otherwise, any parking that requires reversing has every chance of colliding with the surrounding reality. The problem is that for some drivers this skill disappears immediately after they get their license.
The stress they experience while parking forces them to look for ways to get out of the situation. Someone “goes broke” by installing a non-standard rear view camera and a monitor in the cabin, where its image is displayed. Some people prefer parking sensors the old-fashioned way. In both cases, as we understand, the installation of non-standard equipment takes place. Which is not acceptable according to the law.
Some people install a special additional mirror on the back of their vehicle: they look into it and check the distance from the rear bumper to the obstacle. This option is not suitable for everyone, as each mounting hole in the body significantly increases the risk of corrosion.
The author of these lines even heard of drivers who, for the sake of reliable control over rear parking, opened the fifth door of their car to “live” and observe the approach of the bumper to the hood of a car that was parked in a parking garage. adjacent parking lot. This is of course an extreme case. But it illustrates the severity of the problem some drivers face.
However, there is a little-known and simple way to make life easier for those who own crossover SUVs, hatchbacks and minivans. This means models with a more or less vertical rear window and no trunk behind it. This thing is called a “parking lens”, “reversing lens” or something like that.
The design uses the physical principle of the “Fresnel lens”. It is made of flexible plastic, commonly called ‘silicone’. The device is installed on the rear window of the car. It refracts the light passing through it in such a way that the driver is able to look down over the edge of the window of the fifth door of the car. He most likely will not see the rear bumper, but will have the opportunity to see the asphalt at a distance of only 80-100 cm from it. Despite the fact that without “silicone Fresnel” the boundary of this “dead zone” for different types of cars extends by at least 5-6 meters. Feel the difference, as they say.
The “magic lens” looks like a mat of transparent plastic. One side of it is covered with concentric grooves with a special profile. This undulation essentially creates the “Fresnel lens” effect. The “mat” should be moistened with water and pressed against the glass from the inside, at the same time expelling air bubbles from under it. This completes the installation. It has been noted that it will hold up better if the glass of the fifth door of the car is covered with a tint film.
If the car is not equipped with a rear view camera, the owner must constantly keep his sense of size at the right level. Otherwise, any parking that requires reversing has every chance of colliding with the surrounding reality. The problem is that for some drivers this skill disappears immediately after they get their license.
The stress they experience while parking forces them to look for ways to get out of the situation. Someone “goes broke” by installing a non-standard rear view camera and a monitor in the cabin, where its image is displayed. Some people prefer parking sensors the old-fashioned way. In both cases, as we understand, the installation of non-standard equipment takes place. Which is not acceptable according to the law.
Some people install a special additional mirror on the back of their vehicle: they look into it and check the distance from the rear bumper to the obstacle. This option is not suitable for everyone, as each mounting hole in the body significantly increases the risk of corrosion.
The author of these lines even heard of drivers who, for the sake of reliable control over rear parking, opened the fifth door of their car to “live” and observe the approach of the bumper to the hood of a car that was parked in a parking garage. adjacent parking space. This is of course an extreme case. But it illustrates the severity of the problem some drivers face.
However, there is a little-known and simple way to make life easier for those who own crossover SUVs, hatchbacks and minivans. This means models with a more or less vertical rear window and no trunk behind it. This thing is called a “parking lens”, “reversing lens” or something like that.
The design uses the physical principle of the “Fresnel lens”. It is made of flexible plastic, commonly called ‘silicone’. The device is installed on the rear window of the car. It refracts the light passing through it in such a way that the driver is able to look down over the edge of the window of the fifth door of the car. He most likely will not see the rear bumper, but will have the opportunity to see the asphalt at a distance of only 80-100 cm from it. Despite the fact that without “silicone Fresnel” the boundary of this “dead zone” for different types of cars extends by at least 5-6 meters. Feel the difference, as they say.
The “magic lens” looks like a mat of transparent plastic. One side of it is covered with concentric grooves with a special profile. This undulation essentially creates the “Fresnel lens” effect. The “mat” should be moistened with water and pressed against the glass from the inside, at the same time expelling air bubbles from under it. This completes the installation. It has been noted that it will hold up better if the glass of the fifth door of the car is covered with a tint film.
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