Varia 515 Software feature request: vehicle moving at the same speed to be displayed on the screen

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I see that new RearVue radar has a feature that I would like for Garmin to implement into "older" device.
RearVue continues to display detected vehice as a dot while moving at the same speed behind a rider. Varia just drops that dot, and I have found that a bit confusing and negative on the safety side.
If you feel the same, please join me in this request.

George · Answer

No the old radars use Dopplar effect and this cannot detect others moving at the same speed. This is a hardware physical limitation. The new varia rearvue used two different radars including road reflection detection. Even then the latter only work in dry conditions because water absorbs the radar.

Varia 515 Software feature request: vehicle moving at the same speed to be displayed on the screen

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