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In my neck of the woods stoplights are sometimes mounted on the near side of the intersection above the traffic lanes instead of in the middle of the intersection or far side. On my C5, with transparent acrylic roof, even if I'm first in line at the stop light, it's not a problem: I just look through the roof at the stoplight.
In my C8 with solid color roof, it's very difficult to see these stop lights, even if I crouch down in my seat and try to get a view up through the windshield. Just thinking: wouldn't it be nice if Chevrolet added a "stoplight cam," mounted, say, on the windshield behind the rear view mirror, looking up, that would present a view of the stop light on the rear view mirror display by pressing a button on the steering wheel or console (next to the "front view camera" button, perhaps)?
I was thinking this morning about what it would take to engineer a prism "viewfinder" that mounts about the rearview mirror (binoculars, for instance, use reflecting prisms to shift the light from inter-objective distance to inter-ocular distance. Hadn't thought about a Fresnel lens). Apparently these kinds of gadgets were popular in the '40s and '50s when the extended windshields and visors created a high-angle visibility problem. Thanks for pointing it out!
Does C8 need a "stoplight cam"?
