Audi R8 e-tron gets digital rear-view mirror

Parking cameras have been a feature of cars for a while now, but Audi’s taken the idea a stage further with its R8 e-tron – it’s ditching the rear-view mirror entirely in favour of a digital mirror.

The supercar doesn’t have a rear window to improve its aerodynamic profile – so it can’t use a standard mirror. Instead, pictures from a lightweight camera mounted on the rear of the car are fed to a 7.7in Samsung-built AMOLED screen.

Although the Le Mans R18 e-tron features the same tech  – Allan McNish talks to Stuff.tv about some of its bells and whistles here – the R8 e-tron is the first production car to replace the conventional rear-view mirror with a digital version. Down the line, it could include some interesting extra features – like augmented reality overlays showing the speed of following cars, for example.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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