How does an invisible trailer work?

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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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It’s a camera system. A bunch of cameras on the truck and one on the trailer. The trailer cam sees what is behind the trailer, and then the computer automatically integrates that in with the truck cams to give you a 360 degree camera view with the trailer digitally edited out.

Not a cloaking device, but still pretty neat.

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