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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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.
If you are not sure whats behind you THEN DONT PUT THE CAR IN REVERSE.
+1. I personally like them but it should be up to the buyers to decide if they want one.
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.
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.
Yeah, we joke about having a lens cleaner like we see on the race cars!
A $2 back up beeper would have saved thousands of lives over the years.
GM will have them but will catch fire after the warrenty expires.
A $2 back up beeper would have saved thousands of lives over the years.
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.
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.
I stocked up on incandescent light bulbs. Now I need to stock up on cars.
Yes, you need to not let focusing on the camera image, as Honda silently reminds me, preclude checking to the sides as well.
Yep, the demand is there.
The free market, at least for anything of significance, seems to be on its deathbed.
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.
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.
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.
BINGO!
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