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backup cameras mandatory in all new vehicles
March 31, 2014 at
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Automakers will be required to install backup cameras in most new vehicles by May 2018, a federal agency announced Monday. [cnn.com]
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.
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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There are some idiots...that have bought bikes...and that's too bad as it gives the rest of us a bad rep.
I bike and run and I've come to the conclusion that pretty much everyone is an idiot when you put them in/ on a wheeled vehicle.
Too many people rely on physically looking backward- learn to drive with the mirrors.
I can't remember ever having to shift while backing up.
I can't remember ever having to shift while backing up.
And I don't think you can possible back up safely only looking at the screen. The screen only shows what is directly behind you. You can't see what is about to come into your path until it gets in the view of the camera. Looking over your shoulder you still have peripheral vision if someone is about to walk behind you as you are backing up. The camera is just another version of a mirror--you check it to make sure nothing is in your blind spot and then use all other options to see where you are going. It scares me that people think the camera replaces the mirrors and actually looking backwards.
Just back up until you feel resistance and then go a little bit more. Then go forward.
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And I don't think you can possible back up safely only looking at the screen. The screen only shows what is directly behind you. You can't see what is about to come into your path until it gets in the view of the camera. Looking over your shoulder you still have peripheral vision if someone is about to walk behind you as you are backing up. The camera is just another version of a mirror--you check it to make sure nothing is in your blind spot and then use all other options to see where you are going. It scares me that people think the camera replaces the mirrors and actually looking backwards.
Suicide's not an option, dear.
That's what the mirrors are for!
inability to parallel park, look over your shoulder to look behind you, and SEE. fail any one of the 3 should have license removed. tired of these 95 year old citizens pulling their Delta '88 through a CVS wall not being able to look over their shoulder to properly back into the store to pick up their script, then finding [D] to pull out.
Genius.. possibly
suicide on my part not likely
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