Blind Spot Monitoring System for Towable Campers, Travel Trailers, and 5th Wheels Up to 30' Long

Video Transcript for CUB Blind Spot Monitoring System Review

Hi, they're truck and trailer owners. Today, we're gonna be taking a look at Cubs Blind Spot Monitoring System for trailers. And this is what our monitoring system looks like when it's installed. We have our radar sensor here, our blind spot detection, that will detect traffic that's next to us and also behind us. There's one of these on each side. And these are activated even when you're just driving around as long as you're above 12 miles an hour and it'll indicate on our indicator and show you what's going on.

We've also tapped into the turn signal circuits and the reverse light circuit on our trailer here, so that way, when you have your turn signals on, you'll get an audible beep in addition to that and when you place it into reverse, when it sees that signal from the reverse, it'll put it in the cross traffic mode. And that way, when you're trying to back out of a spot here, if there's any cars that drive by it can detect those oncoming vehicles, so you know not to back out just yet. You can see here, that it just bolts right to the side of your trailer, very close to the rear of trailer and fairly low, so that way it's able to detect your smaller vehicles as well as your larger trucks around you. It has a reflective lens on it as well to help increase your visibility at night. So, before we head out on the highway, we're gonna check the cross traffic sensor.

And this is designed for if you're sitting in a parking spot maybe its your local grocery store or something maybe you stopped in to get something real quick on a trip. You gotta put it in reverse, to back out of the spot that you're in. It can be difficult to tell if there's anybody that's gonna be coming across down the aisle because you might have some cars next to you and things like that, that kind of obstruct your view. So, this will turn the sensors on and it will check if there's any vehicles that are gonna be coming up heading by, so you can safely back out, without having to worry that you're backing out and somebody's gonna potentially collide into you or gonna back into somebody. All right.

So we're not all out all on a Highway A here, next to Etrailer, and we need to come out on here cause we need to get some more speed. This system does not activate, at speeds below 12 miles an hour. So, we're getting up to here, so we can see if anybody happens to come by us or if we pass by anybody if the system is gonna activate and work properly. And the little bit of testing that we did with it so far, the 12 miles an hour seems to be a little bit lower than what I found where it picks up. Seemed to be closer to maybe 20 miles an hour, is when it kicks on.

What you will notice is that when we're driving by, the oncoming traffic that's on the other side it does not get detected by our system. So, it's only gonna detect people that's actually going the same direction as us. It's not gonna be picking up those guys over there. So, that's nice that you're not gonna get a bunch of false activations, every time you pass by somebody. All right. So we've got a group of cars around us now. You can see there it's activating, showing that there was somebody next to us. Man In Beanie Oh, yeah, I see it. Man With Long Hair Yeah, they're going a little bit faster than us. There we go we're sped up a little bit so that we can get to activate. Now, it's just showing it in the indicator there, it's not beeping at us because we don't have our turn signal on. We've wired in our turn signal indicators to the system and when we turn it on the turn signal, you get an audible warning in addition to the light. And that's gonna work for both our left and our right. Now, we're gonna hop out in front of some traffic here, slow it down a little bit and we'll see as they pass us, if we can get any detection of them as they're coming by. And there we go. As they're approaching our trailer at the back our indicator popped on. And then our truck popped on, on the factory ones that we got in the mirrors on our truck here once it got closer to the vehicle. But we we're able to see it in our trailer monitor before the truck ones even indicated that they we're there. The blind spot detection system can work and detect vehicles from 30 feet beyond the trailer. So, that's really nice, because that way you're gonna get an indication if somebody's there, even if they haven't quite approached the side of your trailer yet. Just when they're kind of right behind the trailer but on the side, like they're coming up to approach you, so you get a range that gives you kind of a fore warning that, Hey there's somebody it's very close to your proximity or they are in your proximity, don't change lanes right now. All right. So, we've just got back from Highway A there, we're pulling back into the parking lot now. We're gonna just drive by some of these vehicles that we've got here in the parking lot. And the speed that it shows on our cluster is only nine miles per hour. And as we drive by these vehicles you can see that our indicator is not lighting up. Even if we turn our blinker on we're not gonna get any indication because we're below that threshold. So, it gets its information, by plugging into the OBD port on your vehicle and it's able to get vehicle speed data from it. And it uses that to determine whether or not it's appropriate it to light the sensor. And this is kind of nice. Some of the cheaper systems out there that are detecting things, sometimes they activate if you slow speeds and you're driving through a parking lot and there's a million cars around and the system just sitting there flashing at you and beeping at you. You don't have to worry about that with this one when you're just in your Walmart parking lot. But you do have that backup feature that we showed to you before, for backing up that does work in those parking situations. And that completes our look at Cubs Blind Spot Monitoring System for trailers..