Chevy is running TV ads about an option that makes a trailer invisible. The ad demonstrates with a guy standing behind a utility trailer waving at the driver. I’m sure the technology is proprietary, but what can you tell me? How’s it work (in general terms)? Are we on the verge of a real cloaking device?
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I believe that on the back of the trailer is a video display panel. A camera in the front of the trailer picks up the images in front, the images displayed on the he back, so it looks like the trailer isn’t there.
Note, the trailer is deliberately designed so that you can see the edges, so you don’t think there is no trailer there and run into it.
Another Brion I saw had the camera in front of the truck, so drivers following the truck could see if it was safe to pass the truck
In reality the technology is simple, if expensive. Just a camera and a display panel
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