If I throw in a chicken, can I get an exemption?
Another WTF issue to deal with... might as well live in a well-proven communist dump.
a cow-orker of mine was planning to install one on his motor home last week. Said they cost about $40.
Is this satire? Did W sign this bill?
Oh goody. No thank you!
I have no intention of ever buying a new car ever again. Too expensive. And it is about to get a lot more expensive.
I’ll just continue to fix my old cars.
If I throw in a chicken, can I get an exemption?
The same people I wouldn't trust to pick up my Dog's poo poo have nothing better to do than think up things like this?
You would think the Nation's Economy was humming along after the National Debt was paid in full, the Mideast was as peaceful as Gay Day at Disneyland and North Korea was the new Riviera.
Bought the whole works for my truck nearly 2 years ago to help with backing up the boat at the launch (have a bed tool box which sometimes obstructs the view on certain boat launch angles). Installed it myself, easy, total cost $130.
I’ve seen wireless backup cameras for about $65. If someone really wants/needs one, they’re not that expensive. If they would make one with video capture so I can get the license number of that guy that’s tailgaiting me, now we’re talking.
I bought a new car that has one, and was very pleased with the idea, being a relatively new grandfather. However, there are a couple of drawbacks. First is that it has to “initialize’ before it comes on. This might amount to 15 seconds, and if you futz around a little bit starting up, you don’t notice it, but if you turn the key and put it in gear, you’re ten or fifteen feet out of the garage before it comes on. ( As a grandfather, I’ve been trying to condition myself to wait for it. )
Another thing is that it’s a distraction! It does guard against that dreadful possibility of running over your own grandchild playing behind the car ( if you wait, ) but it’s a very curious fish-eye perspective, and I actually bumped a chainlink fence having been emboldened by the view that made it seem I still had some distance. That “distance” was just a few inches and vanished in an instant. No harm done, but I wouldn’t have come within a foot of that fence without the camera.
Further, there’s the issue of cars and other obstacles along side of you when you want to turn. Having this second perspective definitely can distract you from the routine you probably have of orienting yourself wrt your surroundings. In fact, it’s surprisingly confusing. So I’d say it’s a very mixed blessing.
This crap has gotta stop. If you want a backup camera, go down to Advance Auto Parts, buy one and put it in yourself. Government should butt out and leave us alone. There is a side of me that believes that all this hue and cry over human rights is just noise, there is one basic human right, the right to be left alone to pursue our lives and goals as long as we do not impose willingly on others as well as the right to defend ourselves if attacked.
Just another dictate from our alphabet soup overlords.
I’m wondering what companies stand to gain from selling these cameras.
The next rule should make every car a Porche 911.
Individual responsibility is omitted. Good drivers check to see if a kid is in the back before they back out of a driveway. A bumper camera will lead people to have a false sense of security. They don’t work all the time - especially at night. But try telling that to DOT bureaucrats.
Very few people are killed in backover accidents. The cost of equipping a car to prevent something that will likely never happen is crazy. Just now much do we want to spend to prevent every conceivable auto accident?
Par for the course. 1 idiot does something stupid, and everyone is to blame. It’s yet another sign of stinking liberalism.