Reversing cameras are required by law and they need a screen.

And are required by law because people with big SUVs kept running over their own children when backing out of driveways.

"Regulations are written in blood"

Should front facing cameras be required by law (in USA) too? The bonnet height of USA vehicles appears to be adult shoulder height. If you're 5ft/150cm tall or under they're lethal.

I have a 22 Miata with all options, which is about shortest hood you can get in the us.

The vehicle HAS A front facing camera, it takes up a huge portion of the front windscreen. There's no way to see an image from the front camera.

Is it there to....To tell me if i'm...about to crash? it has no automatic cruise or anything. Absolutely puzzling.

Another gripe about this car; "car play" works about half the time. Maybe. 20 percent of the other half, whole display freezes until I restart the car. Mazda can't figure it out and what am I gonna do, lemon it?

mye 15 year old other mazda hatchback connects to bluetooth instantly as soon as i turn the car on and begins to play music.

I have a ‘21 Miata with the same gripes. The CarPlay situation got slightly better with an OS upgrade last year – now it only crashes about 10% of the time, and 75% of those recover on their own without needing a power-cycle.

The lack of adaptive cruise is baffling. We test drove a ‘15 CX-something-or-other in 2014 and it had the ability to brake automatically (dealer was very interested in demoing this feature). I assume it also had adaptive cruise, so it’s wild that a 6 years newer sports car wouldn’t have that feature.

Mind boggling. I've had the same OS update applied, reflashed, etc. Still the same an I stopped chasing it :(

When it comes to mazda it's hard to understand why they do the things they do. We can only be happy they haven't turned miata into a crossover yet.

Great car!

Probably. Could have two classes for forward visibility, one that didn't and one that did.

I wouldn't make the camera a free for all though, it makes sense for pretty good direct visibility to be a design priority (so the camera would be required on cars that had okay but not great forward visibility and it wouldn't be allowed to build anything else).

For new cars in the US (they're not required at all here in UK)

EU requires them too

Backup sensor suffices, unfortunately.

Indeed, thanks for the correction

Not EU wide. At least in Spain, entry level cars don't have neither camera nor sensors

All newly sold vehicles in EU need to have either reversing camera or sensors starting from July 7, 2024

Oh, you're right!

Sure, but a screen, even a touchscreen, is not mutually exclusive with buttons. My Toyota has both, and after setting up the navigation, I can go the whole way and do everything without touching the screen.