As part of its new focus on driver safety, AAMP of America is shipping its first blind spot detection interface that links to the CAN bus of a vehicle for plug and play installation.
The interface, under the Intraphex brand, will work with General Motors vehicles with either 4.2- or 8-inch screens.
The new model includes a vehicle specific harnesses and an integration module. It works with aftermarket cameras that mount under the side view mirrors to display the vehicle blind zones on the car’s radio screen. The cameras are activated when the driver uses his turn signal.
Also, if the vehicle did not come with a factory backup camera the interface will let you add one.
Shown at CES last week, the interface is now shipping at $599 suggested retail price.
AAMP is planning versions for additional car models. It is also planning blind spot detector interfaces that can integrate into Intraphex navigation and camera products.
AAMP is also mounting a driver safety product awareness campaign.
Source: CEoutlook
Linda, you are correct. This type of solution has been around for years we just made it easier getting all of the activation codes from canbus so that there is no need to hardwire to the car and it is just a selectable feature on our reverse camera interface. and it is NOT BLIND SPOT DETECTION. we have labeled it blind spot elimination because you can see the entire blindspot when the camera is activated.
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Danny is right, I’ve been selling cameras with switchers added to the turn signals for years.
Not that this is a bad idea as they have probably made it a lot easier to install.
I personally would rather see a picture than trust an electronic beeper.
I don’t think this qualifies as Blind Spot Detection. It is Blind Spot Cameras. Blind Spot Detection would give some sort of alert either visual or sound or both when something is detected in blind zone. Don’t these just display picture of blind spot zone on screen?