My '01 Allroad did this. I enjoyed that and the back up sensors.
Not all innovations are bad guys....
My '01 Allroad did this. I enjoyed that and the back up sensors.
Not all innovations are bad guys....
I don't think I've ever driven anything with backup sensors and not turned them off. Nothing drives me crazy more than "beep beep beep BEEEEEEEEP" when I'm sitting there thinking "shut the berkeley up you stupid car, that's a piece of tall grass behind you, I don't give a E36 M3 if you think it's in the way".
novaderrik wrote: remember a time when people didn't need their mirrors to move so they could keep track of where they are in space in relation to the curb because they were aware of their surroundings? Remember when your wheels would be gashed anyway, either by your wife or friend borrowing your car, or by your own imperfection, Mr. Hot-shot Parking Master? Pepperidge Farm remembers...
FTFY...remembering the bad stuff as well is the point of the Pepperidge Farm joke 
Could be a useful feature, I'd use it sometimes. If it only engaged at very low speeds I wouldn't complain.
Edit: There's one little problem with this feature that could encourage a bad practice: setting your mirrors so far inward that you can normally see the sides of your car in them. The "anti-curb-rash reversing mirror position" should be downward and inward from the normal driving position.
I've thought about having a car that could remember mirror positions, one for normal driving and one for reversing below 10kph, but then I thought about all the costly exotic hardware that would require and forgot about it 
Some old things are new again
... just on a different level
Because of this thread, I moved my mirror switch in my RDX to the right side and bam, the mirror lowered in reverse. Cool!
In reply to GameboyRMH:
Cars used to have proper steel wheels and tires with nice tall sidewalls..
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