As a boat owner, I’d be curious as to why it won’t work with a boat trailer. Surely there is a way to temporarily mount it somewhere so that it will work properly.
I went through this whole thought process as I was ordering my vehicle...ultimately decided not to order, here are the reasons:
1) Camera is not submursable, so cannot mount it on the trailer
2) For the "transparent trailer" stuff to work, camera has certain height mounting rquirements, which are hard to do on a boat unless you rigged up some sort of a mounting pole in the trailer
3) #2 could be ignored, as it still may be beneficial to at least have a backup cam available, but, reality is, only way I could think to make it work was some sort of elastic band around my outboard that held the camera, but if you have an inboard or stern drive, this doesnt work.
4) #3 Might have worked, but then you have to somehow route the cable temporarily through your boat, then remove it at the ramp to go boating, then do it again after putting your boat back on the trailer. Net, no permanent way to mount the camera, so it's uninstall, reinstall every time you go boating. Who wants to do that after a fun day on the lake?
5) Wasn't clear from any GM tecnical support/info my sales guy could gather, that the shape of a boat trailer was even compatible w/ the software for transparent trailer...
So, for $750, wasn't worth it to me.
@brian196 may have a little trouble selling that, as anyone who actually got provisions for the camera to hook to the truck, also got a camera -- but if someone has 2 trailers, or needs a second cam for inside the trailer, he may find someone interested...
It's too bad GM didn't take boats into consideration on this tech, as my guess is there are a LOT of Pickup and SUV owners who have boats...
