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

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[h=2]Automakers will be required to install backup cameras in most new vehicles by May 2018, a federal agency announced Monday.[/h]The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finalized a long-awaited rule requiring all new cars, SUVs, and minivans, as well as some new small trucks and buses to carry rear visibility technology.
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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.
 
Top Cat said:
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.
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I am not outraged. But if they should mandate that a car have anything it should be speed limiters. ********ing douche bag assholes speed all the ****ing time with at least ten-twenty miles over the speed limit.They act as though somehow those are really speed suggestion signs instead of speed limit signs.During non-rush hour traffic they ride up close enough behind your vehicle that if they were any closer then they would owe you dinner and a movie and it doesn't matter if you are doing the speed limit or just going 5 miles over the speed limit.
 
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Top Cat said:
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.
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Right wing outrage?? Really?? Oh, well.

I have a back-up camera on my Lexus. Comes standard. The new ones (mine is 7 years old) have a wider angle back-up view. It's a good thing to have, in my opinion, although I certainly don't depend on it. But I don't depend on my mirrors either. Always a head swivel.
 
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.
 
Children and pets are often run over by cars backing up because they can be invisible in rearview mirrors. This requirement will probably save enough lives and prevent enough injuries to be worth the modest extra cost.
 
Lutherf said:
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.
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Here you go Maggie. Right on cue.
 
I'm not outraged by it. But if anyone thinks that all he/she needs is a backup camera then that person is sorely mistaken. I have one in my car and I wouldn't even consider relying on it to tell me if anything of value or anything living is behind me. I turn my head. I also don't back up while texting or putting on mascara at the same time, which a huge number of people do.
 
tres borrachos said:
I'm not outraged by it. But if anyone thinks that all he/she needs is a backup camera then that person is sorely mistaken. I have one in my car and I wouldn't even consider relying on it to tell me if anything of value or anything living is behind me. I turn my head. I also don't back up while texting or putting on mascara at the same time, which a huge number of people do.
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It was a must when I had my SUV, and I think I needed it. No amount of head swiveling was going to let me see back there.

Of course, the government will now be able to see themselves while they are following me. Clever.
 
Don't need it, I had one and never did like it. I suppose it's a matter of personal preference. The problem with mandating something like this is it completely overrides that ability to choose.
 
Top Cat said:
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.
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I wouldn't say outraged, but I do find it annoying.

12 million vehicles per year are sold in the US and the article indicates they expected the cost to be $140.00 / vehicle (who knows how much the manufactureres will charge us for it, but lets not look at that just yet)

So, that would be $1,680,000,000 every year to prevent an estimated 59 deaths per year.. Or $28,474,576 per death. And that is just the cost to the manufacturers.. not the customer.

Couldn't the money have been better spent elsewhere to do more good?
 
Top Cat said:
Not the way my wife drives.
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well then nobody was stopping you from buying one.. theyve had it in cars for 10 years of so.. unless Obama tells you you need it you dont seem to have the ability to figure it out..
 
tres borrachos said:
I'm not outraged by it. But if anyone thinks that all he/she needs is a backup camera then that person is sorely mistaken. I have one in my car and I wouldn't even consider relying on it to tell me if anything of value or anything living is behind me. I turn my head. I also don't back up while texting or putting on mascara at the same time, which a huge number of people do.
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yup it says to basically not trust it on the screen...
 
Probably save more lives if they mandated alcohol sensors.
 
Travis007 said:
well then nobody was stopping you from buying one.. theyve had it in cars for 10 years of so.. unless Obama tells you you need it you dont seem to have the ability to figure it out..
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Yeah, but I know how to put a sentence together in English.
 
Top Cat said:
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.
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No outrage. Seems to me, eventually the Progressive Nanny State will push affordability of automobiles so far out there, only right wingers will be able to afford them.

That will be definitely a plus in traffic plagued Southern California.
 
Kinda sucks that I have to pay for it if I didn't use it - sure I'd like it as an option, especially for those people who have physical limitations and cannot fully turn around to look out the back window. As long as it has a switch on it and the NSA can't turn it on and record it - I think I could survive the few hundred bucks it will cost. Hell, I'd like a dash camera and a recording 5 hour recording option too so when I say I just missed slamming into a 12 point buck that was 260 lbs, I can prove it.
 
Travis007 said:
says who?
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Sister Dorthea, my 7th and 8th grade English teacher. She would have tanned your hide but good. You shouldn't have skipped English so often Travis.
 
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