The 2008 Lexus LX570 can see around corners

Lexus has already shown us its Driver Monitoring System which tracks the driver. Now, it's showing off a "front wide-view and side video monitoring system" fitted into the new 2008 LX570 to peer inside your blind spots. The system provides a 180-degree, side-to-side view from the front of the vehicle as if you're standing on the front bumper. This allows you to edge up to a tree, wall, or parked vehicle obstructing your sight in order to get a clear view before pulling out into traffic. The side mounted cam also allows you to see below your passenger, side-view mirror in order to avoid that chucked bottle of bud outside your local dive. Video demonstration, after the break.

[David @ Nov 29th 2007 1:17AM]

But you still can't see the cup of soda, the strip of nails, the IED, or the small puppy under the rear wheel.

[Joshua @ Nov 29th 2007 1:33AM]

people and their tendency to always find something wrong with it >_

[waiownsyou @ Nov 29th 2007 1:25AM]

Best. Car. Ever.

[trancer @ Nov 29th 2007 1:31AM]

that car is hot! when will i be able to afford that?

[Paul @ Nov 29th 2007 9:09PM]

Im sorry but, never

[spaceb @ Nov 29th 2007 1:33AM]

Do not ask if it can play doom! And no, I asure you that it won't blend.

[Shadyman @ Nov 29th 2007 1:46AM]

But will it play...

Oh.

[waiownsyou @ Nov 29th 2007 6:37AM]

Dude, if that crazy Blendtec guy blends a $70k+ SUV, then I'm seriously going to buy one of those blenders!

[Ransom @ Nov 29th 2007 1:36AM]

How much was the cameraman tipped to slather that car in compliments?

[lettcco @ Nov 29th 2007 1:39AM]

whoop-dee-do. Infiniti EX35 can do a 360 view.

[podphreak @ Nov 29th 2007 1:44AM]

The infiniti EX35 is disgusting.... i would take a lexus over an infiniti any day

[SteveMB @ Nov 29th 2007 5:47PM]

I would take neither since they're both pieces of crap.

[Thomas @ Nov 29th 2007 2:12AM]

This is a total copy of the system in a RR Phantom...

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/01/in-the-autoblog-garage-2007-rolls-royce-phantom/

This review talks about it towards the bottom...

[waiownsyou @ Nov 29th 2007 2:46AM]

Dude, that Rolls Royce costs more than the Lexus, does less, and looks like a coffin with a steering wheel. Yuck.

[darkstar @ Nov 29th 2007 9:07AM]

hahah. you're right! it does look like a coffin!!

[CharlieX @ Nov 29th 2007 2:12AM]

all you pansy ass drivers can now have cameras to help you park. wuss faces get the robot axe!

[Jeremiah Zachary Hoffman @ Nov 29th 2007 2:22AM]

why do these people need a camera(s)? did not not go to driving school? it's not rocket science.

[Jeremiah Zachary Hoffman @ Nov 29th 2007 2:24AM]

previous statement laden with typos (doh!), sry meant to say "did these people not go to driving school?" despite my dislike for idiot drivers/parking it is pretty cool tech even if the people that need this can't afford/won't use this.

[SuperPrime @ Nov 29th 2007 2:45AM]

Yeah but it's cool tech and even I would like it around when I'm at the supermarket and some bloody idiot parked so close to me that I'd have to execute a vertical takeoff to get out.

[waiownsyou @ Nov 29th 2007 2:45AM]

You're right, many of us experienced drivers will never need this but this is definitely a plus for those stupid people that can't even change lanes without using the correct signal. Just because you don't need it doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.

In the meantime, get rid of your cellphone and go back to the classic yellin'. GTFO.

[Al @ Nov 29th 2007 3:30AM]

Will the new Land Cruiser have this since they took away many of the nice offorad features of the car.

[Buis @ Nov 29th 2007 3:35AM]

BMW has had something like this (as an option) for at least 10 years:
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?model=AM11&mospid=47636&btnr=66_0132&hg=66&fg=95

[spyder91 @ Nov 29th 2007 11:56AM]

Actually, BMW has never had that system. Do you understand what "retrofit" means? In addition to that, affixing multiple cameras to a car is not the same integration anyway.

[David @ Nov 29th 2007 3:49AM]

that camera man is a prime example of how we in the UK see Americans as a race. My God he is annoying.

It's not fucking Aloooooominum.

I assume they need this as the cars over there are so huge?

[Paul @ Nov 29th 2007 9:13PM]

Cool...? wanna cookie?

[bharatk12 @ Nov 29th 2007 4:08AM]

are the cameras the SONY CMOS ones or some other company cameras..........samsung canon etc

[KC @ Nov 29th 2007 4:14AM]

It does not matter if they can see around corners, or had 360 degree radar. It's still not going to stop the idiot from talking on the phone and driving at the same time and running into people and things.

[Danniy @ Nov 29th 2007 6:05AM]

We will always have that kind of people on the road... :(

[kuzu-b @ Nov 29th 2007 9:38AM]

No matter how idiot proof you try to make cars, in the end the idiots will always win.

[Rocketboy @ Nov 29th 2007 10:44AM]

MINI had something like this too. But it was Euro only.

[micahut @ Nov 29th 2007 1:56PM]

The position of the camera on the side view mirror offers the same view I see from my driver seat. How much more effective is that when I'll be able to see what's on the closest side of my car. You wouldn't drive into a brick wall, so don't drive next to anything you can't see! Also this invention isn't the greatest thing! Don't annoint it as such. I don't know the wheel maybe? The engine perhaps? None of those? But a camera mounted to a car displayed on a dash? Please! All it will do is increase your dependancy of technology, which will in turn take your eyes off the road, so instead of seeing that you're not going to hit anything to the front right, you get sideswiped from the left. This is the worse thing a device can do.

[Rick @ Nov 29th 2007 7:23PM]

Cool, so rich people will be driving by looking at their NAV monitor and not through the windsheld with their own eyes? I'll be running away from lexus's now so I don't get run over or into.

[MBS @ Nov 29th 2007 7:50PM]

Wow, I wonder how much "encouragement" that this auto spies website is getting from Lexus...

It's a neato gizmo, but definitely nothing revolutionary or out of the box...

[Webran61 @ Dec 1st 2007 3:26AM]

Who cares? And what does that even have to do with Lexus implementing new technology?

[erhan @ Nov 30th 2007 12:55AM]

First MOFO's :)

[Zorque @ Nov 29th 2007 1:42AM]

Why have insight when you can be fast?

[webran61 @ Dec 1st 2007 3:28AM]

Lexus has been on a roll with new technology lately. I look forward to seeing other manufacturers implement their own self-parking and corner-seeing systems in the near future.

[Travelbuddy @ Dec 15th 2007 4:47AM]

how about a BACK wide-view angle too!! why just stop at the Front wide-view?? like we never back out of our garages, always wondering if someone is walking into our path!!!??? if they are gonna add something usefull, try adding a feature that is harder for consumers to manage on their own, like turning our heads and shoulders to see the rear wide view. it's certainly more difficult than turning our heads left and right facing forward.