I can change gears in well under a second when moving. My car requires the clutch to be depressed when the car starts, meaning that I can actually ahve the car started in reverse in under a second. Waiting another 4 seconds is crazy.
And if you’re reversing within 3 seconds of turning your engine on then you’re either driving recklessly or on an open and safe space where you don’t even need your cameras.
To be clear, I’m not suggesting that a 4 second boot time for an embedded device is great. But I do think your claim that waiting 4 seconds “is crazy” is rather hyperbolic.
If I've parked my car, I have to have my foot on the clutch to turn it back on agian. My foot is already on the clutch, and I can very easily (and often do) put my car in gear _immediately_.
> then you’re either driving recklessly or on an open and safe space where you don’t even need your cameras.
Or I've looked in my mirror and put my seatbelt on before I turned the engine on. This is the equivalent of "you're holding it wrong".
My point being, 5 seconds might sound like an eternity on paper but I’d wager it’s not nearly as impactful once you start factoring real world scenarios.
Personally, I never look at my camera. I just listen to the beeps and watch my blind spot. Not because it’s safer not because of any delay in the camera coming on, but simply out of habit. So I’ve never noticed a delay in the camera coming on. Maybe there isn’t even a delay in my particular car — but if there was, I wouldn’t know.
The delay that I notice the most is the time it takes to connect to my phone via Bluetooth (usually so I can play music from it). I’m often already pulling out of my parking space before it connects.