What did you do to your Clarity Today

I didn't mention it in another post, but this was one reason I was more than a little concerned about the ease with which anyone can see into the trunk area. If you're headed for the range, and you decide to stop to pick up some ammo - well, beware!

 

I didn't think you were allowed to own guns in California.

 

GOOD LUCK!

 

https://newcaliforniastate.com

The chance of this actually happening? Zero.Point.Zero.

But whatever keeps them busy… This is a new group. I don't think they wanted to party down with the Jeffersons.

However, I totally get their concerns. I just don't know what to do about them - seems like our former mayor, Pete Wilson, might've been the last, best governor for the whole state. But that was years and years ago. It's been whack-a-doodle ever since.

 

I sympathize with some of their underlying concerns. IMO, the only state nuttier than the one I live in, NY, is California.

However I agree with bfd, the odds of success are about zero. But wow, would it be nice to wake up some of these loony tune politicians. The overwhelming majority of them could care less about the people that elected them.

Rant over. I think we’ve deviated from the thread’s title.

 

Yeah. About as likely to actually happen as any of the various "secession' movements in several States. I guess they didn't notice that little fracas we had circa 1861-65, which settled the question of whether States can secede.

Interesting as an intellectual exercise, though. The Wikipedia article on "Six Californias" says, in part:

Had the measure passed, it would not have legally split California immediately; consent would eventually need to be given by both the California State Legislature and the U.S. Congress to admit the new states to the union per Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution.
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That's what I thought; that the other States would have to agree on the split, or at least a majority would have to agree. The chances of that happening are, essentially, zero. Few if any other States would be willing to give the State of California as many as 10 more senators! Or even two more.
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I Added My First Side View Camera
I have already added my Ham radio to the Clarity.

But, as you can see from my comments on the Rear Cross Traffic Alert part of this blog, I decided to add rear side view cameras. The pictures attached show my car in a supermarket parking lot. (This lot has very wide aisles and is on the good end of a spectrum where the local Walmart parking lot is on the bad end.) The camera is the small black dot on the top left rear bumper just to the left of the crack of the trunk lid.
The next picture shows the view of cross traffic from the driver's seat. In these situations, cars driving rapidly down the aisle worry me.

The next picture shows the view of cross traffic from both the Clarity rear-view monitor and my new 5" side view monitor. (The blur is caused by raindrops.) Note the people clearly visible on the side view monitor, walking down the aisle toward me. People are scary but walk slowly. Cars, traveling at 15 MPH, move 22 feet every second.



This was just a quick test on the driver's side, with the monitor tacked in. I have ordered the gear (about $50 from Amazon per side) to do the right side as well. I will also clean up the installation and make it more permanent. I decided to not use the backup lights as a trigger, but have a switch up front instead. Cheers,

 

I should add that you can also see the people in the Clarity monitor, and they would have been more visible if not for the raindrops.

 

@Johngalt6146 - awesome work. Here's hoping, however, that 2019-2020 model has blind spot and cross traffic warnings like our 2018 Odyssey

 

Nicely done! Do you find the location of the auxiliary monitor blocks the vent to some degree?

 

Like hunting season on EVs and Hybrids. JK Just kidding

 

Yes! In a car this High Tech, that and blind spot warning are options that should have been made available. I would happily purchase them.

 

The distance from the rear of the 5" monitor to the vents is 3 -3.5 inches. That should be enough to provide diffusion of the air from the vents. I also continue to explore alternate placement options for the cameras and monitors.
One thing is that I often find myself heavily using the large rear view monitor to avoid hitting lawns and sprinklers when I back down a long narrow driveway. When I do this I'm concerned that I focus so much on the rear monitor that I may miss some car coming from either side on the street. Placing the side monitors very close to the rear monitor lets me take it all in without shifting my focus.

 

Once I get this thing closer to completion, I will take some better pictures. Meanwhile, here are pictures taken while parked at my dreaded local Walmart.

The first picture shows the rear and side camera views. I feel that the side camera sees further up the aisle and will give me better early warning of a car coming from that direction.



This second picture shows what I see from the driver's seat.

 

Very Nice! Your garage looks like mine, including Amazon boxes!