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U.S. requires new cars to have backup cameras[W:26]

Perhaps actually reading the thread is in order before you open your hubacious piehole and drool all over yourself. Several of your ilk have spoken out against the idea. So yes, I was right as usual. You are embarrassing yourself yet again.

No you're not, as usual. When you are right it is seldom, you're just a wisecracker at heart. I am for the idea, which makes you wrong. Now run along.
 
Ha! Sometimes we just can't help ourselves.

No, my car doesn't have that. The only other fancy things it has is auto-adjustable seats to two drivers, heated seats, radar on all four corners, and GPS. The new ones park themselves. :rofl

Yeah, I've done that. Nice hing about being in my business is you get to drive a lot of different cars. The self parking thing is creeepyy.
 
No outrage. Seems like a waste of money to me.

What's it cost for a camera & monitor made in China? fifty cents?

I'm considering an aftermarket one for my cargo van, eBay has them for around 30 bucks.

It's just a little extra cushion of safety, drivers really need to know what's behind them when backing up, if you hit a car with a suv, a van or a pickup truck, that's easily a couple thousand dollars in potential damage.
 
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U.S. require new cars to have backup cameras - Mar. 31, 2014

Cue up the right wing outrage. My left wing self thinks this is a great idea. I suspect most of us have backed into something over the course of time.

To be fair, you didn't get a whole lot of right wing outrage. Regardless of political perspective, I think most people recognize that all vehicles have a blind spot in the back which has gotten worse as cars have gotten bigger. Add to that the negligible production cost (only a couple of dollars), and it's a no brainer.

I'm sure there would be some sort of outcry if Obama was involved, but there's no sense looking for outrage where none exists.
 
To be fair, you didn't get a whole lot of right wing outrage. Regardless of political perspective, I think most people recognize that all vehicles have a blind spot in the back which has gotten worse as cars have gotten bigger.

Not even in connection with getting bigger.

Among the rental cars that I have driven in the past few years, with ridiculously huge blind spots, were a Toyota Yaris and a Ford Fiesta, both subcompacts, much smaller than my Contour. There is some element of very, very bad design, that seems to be creeping into all contemporary cars, of all makes, all sizes, and all styles, that is creating these very bad blind spots that have no good reason to exist.
 
No you're not, as usual.

Once again. Read the thread. There are many righties that are not pleased for the predictable reasons. Right as rain. You embarrassed yourself again.
 
Just another way to protect the US car industry against overseas competition. Just like the headlights issue....

It would be nice to keep the European trash out of the US.
 
It's a silly mandate.
Now if you limit it to large pickup trucks, SUV..or have some standard measure such as( can't see <5ft behind said car), that makes much more sense.
 
U.S. require new cars to have backup cameras - Mar. 31, 2014

Cue up the right wing outrage. My left wing self thinks this is a great idea. I suspect most of us have backed into something over the course of time.

I never have. It seems to be enough to check behind the car before you get in and to use the 3 rear view mirrors. Perhaps technology can add a feature whereby the driver's eyes must be on the video display before being backing up. Sad if people can avoid looking at the video.

Of course, car makers and makers of the camera device would support this legislation.
 
all this did was jack the price of the car up about 1000 dollars.
why do stupid people always find themselves in places of decision making i will never know.
 
In general I'm opposed to forcing businesses or people to do anything.
 
This is said to be mandatory for cars made after a date in 2018. I am sure by then a new technology will ba available making back up cameras obsolete, like removing the rear of all cars to save weight or making them out of a thin transparent plastic.
 
Lawyers might love this after backup cameras are installed, then fail because of a glitch, I can see car makers being sued because a backup camera failed, and someone ran over a child.
 

Umm yes

the camera if it is any good is at least 200. the lcd in the front to view it is another 200 or so. then the cost of putting it in and installing it.
factor in overhead and profit margin yes. very much so.

tech packages already to include these on the cars range from 600-1000 already.
 
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Ridiculous.

People who don't pay attention to what they are doing aren't going to pay any more attention just because there's a camera. They'll still get in the car, crank up the stereo, and back over Junior while messing with their phone.

The government has been making a living trying to save people from themselves for decades and all it's done is make people believe that they have no need to be personally responsible for anything.

Sums up the GOP philosophy nicely.
 
My wife's station wagon has early vintage proximity sensors all around it. The car seemingly was a reliability nightmare. Wouldn't go into gear (electronic gear shifting). So we'd have it towed to the dealer (80 miles away) and 7-10 days later we'd get it back with a $2000 repair bill claiming it was some failed computer system - a different on each time. Towing and rental car costs too. After getting ripped off a total of about $7000 - I found out that if that particular early model Merc is parked too close to something in front or behind it won't allow it to go into gear as a safety precaution. Meaning she had parked too close to the bushes, so wouldn't let it be put into gear. The dealer used that to rip her off 3 times. Thieving bastards.

Technology is great when it's working properly, when it doesn't, some of us are at the mercy of the fixer.
 
Umm yes

the camera if it is any good is at least 200. the lcd in the front to view it is another 200 or so. then the cost of putting it in and installing it.
factor in overhead and profit margin yes. very much so.

tech packages already to include these on the cars range from 600-1000 already.

And they will come down. That's the way it works.
 
And they will come down. That's the way it works.

proof or evidence because they haven't come down yet and i seriously doubt that if they are forced to put them in that they are going to lose money.
if you think that they are going to lose money then well you don't know business and are the typical liberal that think people will just give up profit.

they don't give up profit. no business gives up profit. they will just install the proper tech package as included and charge the cost.
the only difference will be that it won't be a line item, but the cost of the car will go up to match the speced price.
 
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