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All new cars required to have rear-view cameras by 2018
The Verge ^ | 3-31-14 | Kwame Opam

Posted on 03/31/2014 11:00:37 PM PDT by kingattax

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued new regulations today requiring all vehicles weighing under 10,000 pounds to be equipped with rear visibility cameras by May 2018. The new rule is designed to protect pedestrians from vehicles backing up into them, though it has up until now faced numerous delays.

Though carmakers like Honda and Toyota have already begun to outfit their cars with backup cameras, the regulations will apply to all cars, buses, and trucks for the 2019 model year. The NHTSA has been pushing for this rule for years, though a final rule has been delayed five times since 2011. According to the group, the new cameras must provide a 10-foot by 20-foot field of vision directly behind the vehicle — a view that can hopefully reduce the 210 deaths and 15,000 injuries per year caused by backing up.

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To: kingattax

Just another way to make it more expensive to live.

Cheap cars like the VK Bug have gone the way of the dodo.

Just like the middle class will as more and more of this crap expense is imposed on the public instead of letting the market decide.


21 posted on 04/01/2014 3:45:47 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: kingattax

If you are not sure whats behind you THEN DONT PUT THE CAR IN REVERSE.


22 posted on 04/01/2014 3:52:25 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Still Thinking

+1. I personally like them but it should be up to the buyers to decide if they want one.


23 posted on 04/01/2014 4:27:45 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: 9YearLurker

And we have one in our 2014 Honda.

Works great.

BTW - I believe that the ‘camera’ will cost less than $150.00 overall with the surge to larger informational screens in newer autos which interact with smartphones for music and text, etc.

I despise this type of government mandate - the market is providing it already. Let the market dictate.


24 posted on 04/01/2014 4:28:59 AM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: pepsionice
There’s a EU push to have GPS in every car sold by 2020.

It wouldn't surprise me to see a similar thing happen here, possibly as part of this camera requirement. If you're going to have a rear-view camera, you really need the Nav system with a sufficiently large view screen. My wife's car has the camera but not factory nav, so the camera display is a tiny screen hidden in the rear-view mirror (too small to be useful).

Overall, I prefer the obstacle sensor systems to cameras.

25 posted on 04/01/2014 4:30:54 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Yeah, we joke about having a lens cleaner like we see on the race cars!


26 posted on 04/01/2014 4:44:33 AM PDT by jughandle
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To: kingattax

A $2 back up beeper would have saved thousands of lives over the years.


27 posted on 04/01/2014 4:47:54 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ("There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Red in Blue PA

GM will have them but will catch fire after the warrenty expires.


28 posted on 04/01/2014 5:33:50 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

A $2 back up beeper would have saved thousands of lives over the years.


At the cost of tens of thousands life/equivalents lost due to the consequences of the health effects of disrupted sleep.


29 posted on 04/01/2014 5:34:50 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Lose to Cruz - 2016!)
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To: vette6387

The new thing in south Texas is mezicans stealing tailgates off of Super Duty trucks. They resale them or part out the camera pieces. Keep your tailgate locked.


30 posted on 04/01/2014 5:52:35 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: 9YearLurker

Same here but Honda adds a check surroundings warning as well. It is good but you still have to twist and use your eyes as well. I know there are some cameras that check sideways 90 degrees so that is another plus. Eventually cameras will have 360 degree vision for automated driving and parking.


31 posted on 04/01/2014 6:15:18 AM PDT by xp38
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To: kingattax
Mark my words, we will soon be required to wear motorcycle helmets in our cars. I'm guessing that head injury deaths in car accidents are much more prevalent than deaths from backing up.

I stocked up on incandescent light bulbs. Now I need to stock up on cars.

32 posted on 04/01/2014 6:35:10 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: xp38

Yes, you need to not let focusing on the camera image, as Honda silently reminds me, preclude checking to the sides as well.


33 posted on 04/01/2014 6:40:27 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: BBB333

Yep, the demand is there.

The free market, at least for anything of significance, seems to be on its deathbed.


34 posted on 04/01/2014 6:42:14 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: dr_lew

The answer:

“But my backup screen said it was Ok to backup!”

/s

My parents bought a new Honda with it as standard equipment, along with a right-side mirror camera.

Nifty, but what a distraction to ‘driving’...

Frankly, the first thing I’d do is hack the interface to turn it off & on at will. The big problem is that the ‘displays’ are integrated; you can’t disable the display without losing radio, gps & other functions.


35 posted on 04/01/2014 9:36:10 AM PDT by logi_cal869
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To: Vendome

could be, but big brother doesn’t need any convincing to protect us from ourselves b/c we can’t make it through the day without their watchful, loving omiscient presence monitoring us and making better decisions than we could, for us.


36 posted on 04/01/2014 10:04:57 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: kingattax

It would seem more critical to require back-up sensors: so
the sensor could automatically brake the car, if it comes too close to hitting something.


37 posted on 04/01/2014 1:41:27 PM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: Vendome
I’ll bet with a little research I could discover that the rear view camera companies made the case for mandating it.

BINGO!

38 posted on 04/01/2014 4:10:55 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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