Rear view cameras with actual large screens?

[fixedd]

My eyesight isn't what it used to be, so I'm looking for a rear view camera with a large screen (think 10"+ tablet), but all the one's I'm finding are basically phone sized. My contact lenses let me see fine to drive (or when using actual mirrors), but to focus on a screen up close I'd pretty much have to put on some "reading" glasses every time I wanted to glance up. The only real alternative seems to be wearing bifocal glasses and mount the screen low, but then you get in to glare issues (plus, I have decades of muscle memory telling me to glance up for rear-view).

I don't care if it has recording... I just want to be able to see if someone is about to overtake me, or if there's a kid hiding back there.

Bonus points if it's hard wired and can be wired to be always on when it has power (not just in reverse).

I thought about building my own, but all I really know how to use for this sort of thing is the single-board computers like a RaspberryPi, and a 20+ second boot up time isn't really ideal.

 

[Slapdash]

We have a Lamtto RC14 with a fairly big screen, almost 10 inches wide. You can leave it on rearview all the time or split screen it for directions. It has a front camera as well, can record if you want to (we don't), and has backup calibration and the like. One caveat is that the speakers are terrible if you use it for GPS. Has CarPlay too, if you're into that sort of thing. I just use it for what you need it for, I think.

 

[Rucker]

I got a system with a 7" screen and agree totally, the bigger the better. Mine is barely sufficient.

My system has four cameras, always on. All multiple-camera systems allow you to configure how they display. I have two side cameras are mounted on the left and right, pointing rear, for passing, and two in the rear, one pointed down for backing up and the other pointed at the traffic behind. The display is divided into an H pattern, top middle is rear, bottom middle is rear down; left is left camera and right is right camera. So far that's worked well.

Also agreed, a wired system is the winner, as I hear wireless can be skratchy.

And infra-red is a must if you plan to drive at night.

And I also learned that placement of the screen is important if you wear progressives-don't permanently mount it until you've used the system for a bit so you can see how much head-tilting is needed...

 

[nikitis]

What's your system called Rucker?

 

[fixedd]

Bumping the question... what's your system, @Rucker??