I truly don’t understand how in 2023 with all the digitalization we have cars with backup cameras from at best a 2015 mid range smartphone. What’s preventing a manufacturer like bmw for an example from putting a high end sony sensor like the one on the iPhone 15 into their camera modules?
Like most car systems, they need to put up with the worst environmental conditions and work for years on end without issue. People talk a lot of shit about cars being less reliable now but stuff like this is expected to last 100,000 miles and still work despite zero maintenance and being subject to awful conditions.
They need to handle snow, sleet, salt, surges of water, high heat, direct sunlight for hours on end, road debris, various chemicals and oils that may be splashed on them, various cleaning chemicals, intense and constant vibrations, and basically anything else that’s gonna be thrown at them. And everything needs to work. The camera quality is often effected by all the multiple layers of protection in front of the camera, as well as all the sensor tech that is also built in.
All of this also needs to be done as cheap as possible, these cameras are still pretty pricey but considering everything that’s going on, it’s not bad at all. Getting the camera quality any higher despite everything working against it would add considerable cost and little benefit, as no one is gonna pick a more expensive car solely because it has a nicer camera