How about blind spot monitor

I do not know, I just alleviate blind spots by adjusting my side view mirrors correctly. As a matter of fact, my friends, Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers explain how to do this here: Car Talk | How to Avoid the Blind Spot

Basically you lean to the left, with your head on the glass of the driver's door. Adjust the mirror so that you just barely see the edge of your car. Move your head the same amount on the other side, and adjust the passengers' side mirror the same way. If you need to fine tune it, just pull up along side a line of parked cars.

What happens is that as soon as a car moves out of the vision of your rear view mirror, it appears in one of your side view mirrors.

I picked this tip up years ago from a guy who races vintage cars. If it's good enough for him, I thought, it should be good enough for me. I have been using this method for quite some time, and it works just fine.

 

I'm 62, and have vision issues the last 8 years. I've installed the small blindspot mirror on my cars side driver's mirror for many many years. And when getting my Prius, a small convex mirror on the inside rearview mirror which covers the rightside blindspot perfectly. Using all mirrors, I can glance and ensure who's around me.
Also installed a rear view camera for parking etc (no nav).
All work well for me, and provide good safety measures.

 

EXACTLY! I've done this since my father taught me to drive. Never even had a problem w/blindspot when driving my FJ Cruiser for 4 and a half years. Now that was a blind spot.

 

If you have both the stick on convex mirrors and the rear view cam mod my guess is that you'll use the convex mirror view more than the rear cam view for blind spot checking. The reason being you only have to look in one place and not two to check.

Cool mod though, more rear and side vision is always better than less.

 

That is very cool. Is this possible in Gen II. 2008?

 

This is why I bought blind spot mirrors. Some fancy, $30+ ones. So difficult to change lanes to the right in the Prius without those.

 

I just use little round convex mirrors on both driver and passenger side mirrors. Cost was only a couple of bucks, and took about 60 seconds to install. No blind spots. It's not as sexy or geeky as the rearview camera approach, but it works.

 

This is one of the reasons I abandoned this mirror strategy decades ago, within weeks of moving to a region with multi-lane highways. The outside mirrors ought to be angled out for no overlap with the inside mirror, drastically shrinking the blind spot and revealing that 'hidden' car.

Nighttime headlight glare from flanking vehicles was the other reason for changing mirror strategy.

 

Hi All,

The Click and Clack method is great when there is only one lane on either side of you. If there is more than one lane, you cannot see cars in those lanes more than a few feet back. Which is insufficient. I actually drive using the Click and Clack method all the time.

Last weekend, I was in a parking lot and got beeped because he was coming in from too far a displacement off to my right for me to see in the mirrors. ANd he was going to fast, so even though I head checked, the traffic in front took my attention for too long a time for the speed this guy was going, and I pulled into a lane where he was cutting into from another lane. He did not realise I was actually rolling, as he was going so fast, and I was EV ing around towards the exit of the lot.

 

that's what I have $0.99, 15 seconds to install. Have had them on every car I drive since 1993.

cproaudio - I loved the diagrams on your page, and will start playing with them one of these days when I start working on my other project cars. Thaks!!!

 

I have been lurking and watching a couple posts about the blind spot monitor. eep:
BTW, Thanks for the tips on plugs, wire colors, etc. It really helped! So, Here is my MOD:


I have another post on how I made that switch insert for my (parallel seat heater switch) mod.

Here is the wiring diagram. Nothing fancy here...
When I am driving and a car is in my blind spot, I can see the back end of the car in the blind spot on the edge of the monitor screen. :high5:
Check this out! A guy on Prius II chat did this mod except he had 2 video sources! On his mod, he connected switched DVD player video, and the DVD sound was through the AUX plug for cartoons for his kids.

NOTE: after installing this mod, I got the Check Hybrid System Error! I started the car 3 times and it cleared it up. (after making sure all connections were good)
This mod it neat and all that, but I am not sure it was worth all of this work. It decided to rain while I had the car ripped apart. I also ran a blue wire for the JDM mirrors puddle lamp while I had everything taken apart. My daughter likes to see the cars zoom by on the screen while we are driving.
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Hi cpro, I got the idea from this post and the other one (I posted in both places). I have seen your work on other posts with some great ideas, but I just wanted a quick solution. :roll: I thought about a mechanical solution tied to the signal stalk, but eventually went with this. :alien: Thanks!
Here is the link: Pri II Video

Here is a clip of the camera in action:


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