I've seen quite a few iPads installed in cars but I haven't seen any that used any sort of camera setups for reversing or anything like that. Most of the ones I looked at basically use it just for playing stored music or streaming Internet radio or stuff like that. IMHO your biggest hurdles with what you're looking into is the voltage drop across extended cables as well as interference from the high frequency transmissions in the very tiny cables. The camera weren't designed to communicate over meters of cables and won't, it's not as simple as hacking it apart and plugging in extension cables I'd love to have camera support on my ipad in the car as well, I actually considered a CarPC with usb webcams that stream to a network service the ipad can consume... but that just seems too complicated. Would a dash installation of an iPad be considered illegal in the sense of using any device whilst driving (phone, GPS, etc.) is a hefty fine? Mounting it too close to the driver could be considered a distraction. How tempted would you be to touch the screen whilst driving? 1 single distraction could prove fatal. The moment you touch the screen whilst driving, you a going to be pinged if caught. A set-up where it was in place for the passenger to operate may be a more feasible application and get away from any "driver temptation" Would a dash installation of an iPad be considered illegal in