This backup camera cleaner hides behind your license plate

A Vermont-based startup has announced a caller upgrade kit that adds a remotely triggered backup camera cleaner to your car. The Lens Lizard system mightiness look for illustration an unnecessary luxury to some, but if you woody pinch crystal and snowfall obscuring your backup camera each winter, aliases unrecorded location distant pinch ungraded roads mucking up your ride, the upgrade will prevention you from having to often cleanable the camera yourself.

Its creators are making the Lens Lizard available done a Kickstarter and those who backmost the crowdfunding run tin preorder a kit discounted to $99. Full unit pricing is expected to beryllium person to $149 while shipping will commencement successful April 2026.

The NHTSA has mandated backup cameras connected caller vehicles since 2018, but cleaning systems aren’t communal and tin beryllium costly. You tin find them connected vehicles from Subaru, Toyota, and VW, but the characteristic is often portion of much costly trim packages. The Lens Lizard is an aftermarket upgrade that’s compatible pinch “most North American vehicles” arsenic agelong arsenic the backup camera is located supra the rear licence plate.

One of the reasons the Lens Lizard is constricted to North American vehicles is because the hardware is sized and shaped to beryllium a self-contained module that’s installed down your licence sheet utilizing the existing screw holes and minimal tools. It features a refillable reservoir for wiper fluid that’s blasted astatine a backup camera utilizing an adjustable high-pressure pump.

The reservoir and removable rechargeable artillery powering the pump will supposedly past for 4 to six months depending connected really often you’re cleaning the lens. To further simplify installation, the Lens Lizard doesn’t link to your vehicle’s electrical system. You tin alternatively remotely trigger it, moreover while driving, utilizing an included wireless Bluetooth remote.