Automatically adjusting displayed camera angle and distance to objects

A system for a vehicle comprising:

• a plurality of sensors coupled to the vehicle;
• a rear-facing camera coupled to the vehicle;
• a memory coupled to the plurality of sensors and the rear-facing camera that stores computer-executable instructions;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to access the memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to:
• detect that the vehicle is in a reverse mode;
• receive, using the plurality of sensors, road topology information;
• capture, using the rear-facing camera, an image of an environment behind the vehicle;
• determine that a feature of interest is outside a displayed field of view (FOV) of the rear-facing camera due to the road topology;
• adjust the displayed FOV of the rear-facing camera to place the feature of interest within the displayed FOV for the rear-facing camera;
• determine, based on the road topology information, one or more distance markers indicative of a distance between the vehicle and the feature of interest;
• and
• display an updated image of the environment behind the vehicle, the updated image including the one or more distance markers and being associated with the displayed FOV.

A vehicle comprising:

• a chassis;
• a motor coupled to the chassis;
• an on-board computer coupled to the chassis, the on-board computer including a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute one or more instructions to:
• detect a reverse mode;
• receive road surface topology information;
• determine a feature of interest is outside a displayed field of view (FOV) for a rear-facing camera;
• determine, based on the road surface topology information, a distance marker indicative of a distance between the vehicle and the feature of interest;
• adjust the displayed FOV for the rear-facing camera to place the feature of interest within the displayed FOV for the rear-facing camera;
• and
• include the distance marker in an updated image associated with the adjusted displayed FOV for the rear-facing camera.