1. A system to enhance vehicle-environment perception, the system comprising: a memory comprising one or more executable instructions; a controller configured to read and execute the one or more executable instructions; a camera configured to view or capture or view and capture an image of a selected portion of a vehicle environment; a display configured to exhibit information; a user input configured to allow one or more commands to be provided to the system; one or more accelerometers placed in at least one of various locations around a vehicle, each of the one or more accelerometers is a vibratory sensor configured to determine when the vehicle encounters a road surface feature based on detected vibrations and send a corresponding sensor signal to the controller, wherein the various locations around the vehicle include the interior cabin, steering wheel, and at least one wheel well; and wherein the executable instructions enable the controller to: receive the sensor signal and responsively operate the camera; operate the camera based on the one or more commands; receive, from the camera, information of the selected portion of the vehicle environment; generate perception information from the information of the selected portion of the vehicle environment; and exhibit, through the display, the perception information.