Pay attention to quality and reliability of car reversing radar

Whether there is necessity to install the reversing radar or not, it is a matter of preference. The professional and skillful drivers will just disdain to install the reversing radar. Besides, they will warn the new drivers that being too independent on the reversing radar can not help you being more skillful in driving. What is more, sometimes the reversing radar does not work properly. But for the green hand and some female drivers with bad sense of driving, spending several hundred dollars in installing the reverse radar is very safe and also free from worry. Here we are about to introduce non-factory reverse radar.

Types and brands

Reversing radar begins to work when the car is in the reverse gear. The reversing radar is composed of three parts, the probe, the host and display. The probe can be installed in a different amount according to the need. It is common to see at present that 4 probes (installed at the rear bumper) and 6 probes (2 front 4 rear).

In addition to the general placement, the monitor can also replace the original rear-view mirror and keep the balance between these two functions. It can display a variety of information, such as the distance, the angel between the obstacle and the car, the temperature inside and outside the car (depending on the radar grade).

Take the reversing radar with 4 probes and LCD display screen for example. It can detect the obstacle as far as 1.96 m, besides it can tell you that which probe has detected the obstacle. If two probes have detected the obstacles at the same time, it will subject to the nearest obstacle to the car. Some display screens come with in-car handfree function. There is loudspeaker, microphone inside. So you can record and playback. The reversing radar means of prompts can be divided into a digital display, voice prompts and phonetic prompts.

Take this reversing radar for example. It can warn you of criticality by the three colors changing in the backlit. The voice prompt will tell the drivers to stop in time by different degrees of rapidness. Some reversing radars come with the silentmode onoff for the drivers, who likes quiet atmosphere. The receive mode of the reversing radars can be divided into wired mode and wireless mode. The wireless receive mode is clearly easier. You don’t need to dismount the original decoration of the car because of the routing. Besides, it will not be influenced by the type and the length of the cars, therefore the price is a little higher. 

Reversing Radar brands currently on the market can be described as a mixed bag. The price ranges from a few hundred to a thousand dollars. Some manufacturers also design dedicated reversing radar according to the different models.