Dodge Backup Cams

Backup camera systems, even at their most basic, are fairly sophisticated pieces of technology. They are getting more high-tech all the time.

• When you put your car into reverse, your Dodge backup camera mounted at the rear of the vehicle turns on and sends an image to a monitor to show what’s behind you.
• The complexity begins with how the camera captured the image. Rather than transmitting the picture that a typical camera might see, manufacturers designed backup camera systems to send a mirror image to the monitor.
• This is so the orientation is correct when you look at it. If you were looking at a direct feed of what the camera sees, the image reversed; and you’d steer left when you wanted to go right. They designed the system to correct this so the view on the display makes sense.
• Drivers can mount their backup cameras anywhere they like in their field of vision. But for the desired images, they are usually mounted hidden in the bumper, near the license plate, in the trunk lid, or in the tailgate of an SUV or pickup truck.
• Since most newer vehicles have an existing screen for the entertainment system, climate control, navigation and other functions, drivers used that display for the backup camera system. Other versions use a portion of the rearview mirror as a monitor.
• Dodge backup camera gives the advantage of situating the display where drivers are accustomed to looking when backing up.