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Re:Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons by roughly on Sunday May 03, 2026 @02:29PM (#47999894)
No, screens cannot replace mirrors, but we’re doing it anyway.
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Re:Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons by red_admiral on Sunday May 03, 2026 @03:32PM (#48000516)
Van (Mercedes Sprinter) where there's no way to fit a central mirror in the first place?
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Re:Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons by ajross on Sunday May 03, 2026 @02:50PM (#48000105)
There are literally thousands of people alive today who would have been killed absent backup cameras. This point is laughably wrong.
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Re:Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons by roughly on Sunday May 03, 2026 @02:55PM (#48000158)
Backup cameras are used in a very narrow set of the circumstances that car mirrors are intended for. They augment mirrors.
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