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Had wasp looking into my camera as I was backing out. Fascinating.
Unfortunately I was not fast enough with my cell phone camera.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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We have a truck with electronic gizmos and a car without.
I'm old and have always used mirrors; side and rear view, with never a problem.
Although the rear camera, on the truck is handy when I get PO'd and want to back up over something.
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The camera is also handy when you want to hook up a bumper tow trailer. That is all I ever use it for.
Now if my truck only had one for in the box it would make hooking up the goose neck trailer a lot easier. With the extended cab and tool box in the way I can not see the ball at all from the cab. But I am getting pretty good a guesstimate its position so I get it in only a couple removes.
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Take an old broomstick or thin stick.
To the end of the broomstick, fasten a suction cup, cut off water bottle, Pringles can, or anything, that will balance/stand on/over the ball.
Place it on/over the ball.
Backup until the hitch bumps into it.
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Sounds like a great idea. So simple and so obvious now that I have heard it. I will have to try that. Thanks
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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A few minutes later, I thought: β2-3 Pringles cans and some duct tape is even easier!β
Bonus: If you punch out the bottoms to make a tube, you have a wifi extender/snooper.
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I learned to reverse on side mirrors many years ago, driving pickups etc with the interior mirror obscured.
My main use for the camera is picking distance when parking. I still find it difficult to judge distance in a convex mirror, as 99% of side mirrors are these days.
(And I drive a variety of vehicles with similar width but variable length.)
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Some Netflix pranks show I watched had a cool rig with four posts and magnets on the end.
Hooks/little bungees let you suspend, say, a tiny shopping cart within the posts. Then you can walk by and stick the whole thing to the back of a car right over the camera.
When they get out, they can't see a cart (or whatever you suspend) which they should see well before they go far enough back to see the rig stuck to their camera.
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At least for my car it would need to be really, really small.
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Our current car has a reversing camera which, like yours, lacks a wiper and so needs wiping regularly. But an even more first world problem is that our previous car also had a front camera and mirror cameras for all round view on the screen, and boy do we miss losing 75% of the coverage.
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Design fail. The backup camera on my car remains useful even in the rain based on its mounting location beneath the lip of the trunk lid which deflects the rain.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Ours is under the lip, too. It gets a fine covering of road spray in wet weather.
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Car had been stationary in the carport. Fine rain had blown in from behind.
The camera is pretty well shrouded, in the tailgate.
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That was unlucky!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I thought of that but remembered it had already been used - v unlucky though
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Yes I thought it was French
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It is. But apparently it's now also an English interjection.
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I am never going to hear the end of it.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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... Yes, it is.[^] 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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A newly married sailor was informed by the navy that he was going to be stationed a long way from home on a remote island in the Pacific for a year.
A few weeks after he got there he began to miss his new wife, so he wrote her a letter. βMy love," he wrote βwe are going to be apart for a very long time. Already I'm starting to miss you and there's really not much to do here in the evenings. Besides that, we're constantly surrounded by young attractive native girls. Do you think if I had a hobby of some kind I would not be tempted?β
So his wife sent him back a harmonica saying, "Why don't you learn to play this?"
Eventually his tour of duty came to an end and he rushed back to his wife.
"Darling" he said, "I can't wait make passionate love!"
"First let's see you play that harmonica!"
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