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Re: Requiring Backup Cameras in All New Cars by 2014
Posted by KevinM (more from KevinM) on Sat, 4 Dec 2010 14:31:25
In Reply to: Re: Requiring Backup Cameras in All New Cars by 2014, Dean, Sat, 4 Dec 2010 10:58:45
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Depends on vehicle, imho. It seems to me that the backup camera has a place in full-size SUVs that even tall drivers cannot see out of when in reverse. Also, maybe in large sedans the demographic for which seem to focus on, um, mature, amply fed drivers who may not have the flexibility to survey side and rear sight angles.
But in small- mid-size sedans, I don't see the need for back up cams. In these cars, a driver should be able to use the mirrors and, by turning in the seat, can see past the edge of the trunk lid.
And here's a swell opportunity to make another pitch for functional design. It is plumb ridiculous to design cars that have blind spots to the rear and sides simply to indulge a particularly silly passing taste for over-ornamented automobiles that look like furious fish or service pods for the starship Enterprise.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Requiring Backup Cameras in All New Cars by 2014, JohnA
, Sat, 4 Dec 2010 07:27:06- bought one for less than $50! The T100 pickup needs it, nicknick
, Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:33:43 - Protect me from myself, JMJ in NC, Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:04:54
- Have one, don't use it..., W. Beetus, Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:08:00
- More government meddling., Noel, Sat, 4 Dec 2010 14:20:32
- Re: More government meddling., swede-murphy
, Thu, 9 Dec 2010 17:37:15 - backup cameras are essential if..., James, Mon, 6 Dec 2010 12:21:24
- Re: Fatalities from backing?, BobS, Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:56:45
- Re: More government meddling., kkelley, Sun, 5 Dec 2010 07:20:55
- Re: More government meddling., VTim, Sun, 5 Dec 2010 04:42:02
- Re: Requiring Backup Cameras in All New Cars by 2014, Dean, Sat, 4 Dec 2010 10:58:45
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