Looking at the thread so far oppinions seem to vary (diversity is a good thing)
But something has just occured to me. Driving is a skill, skills improve with training and practice.
Most car drivers only do 8/12000 miles per year.
Looking at the adverts, most motorhomes do about 2/4000 miles per year.
Some of the comments have been made by professional or ex professional drivers, as a professional I have driven about 50000 miles per year ( thats about 1000000 miles over my 20 year career.
Reading the thread I should think there are some out there who have driven far more than me.
I have been lucky enough to have had about 250/300 hours of driver training, granted a lot was high speed driving but a significant amount was low speed manouvering, restricted access reversing etc
As professionals we all drive using our mirrors, it's instict, based on hundreds of hours of experience, we plan our reverse by looking into our evential parking space, we check for obstrucions, we look for overhangs (structures, buildings,branches ) , we look at the surface for camber, mud, slope, and we plan how far we can go back, its instict based on experiance, we are so used to it we dont even know we are doing it.
A lot of our members dont have this advantage!
When I first joined this site I was (and continue to be) impressed by the way members not only had oppinions, but shared the benifit of there experiance with others.
It was as a result of reading these usefull threads I decided to change from a little old Auto sleeper rapsody, to a left hand drive Hymer, and it will be with the help of these threads i will take my first steps into "wilding"
So lets not just have oppinions, lets give help and encoragement based on our experiencies.
As other members have said reversing cameras are not the way to reverse BUT they are an aid to reversing which you can use in conjuction with mirrors and observations, and they do give a vission into the blind spot and let you know to the inch where the back of the vehicle is.
Chris
