XPost: alt.home.repair, alt.law-enforcement
From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com
In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 3 Aug 2023 22:53:48 -0400, Ed P
wrote:
>On 8/3/2023 10:14 PM, Michael Trew wrote:
>> On 8/1/2023 4:49 PM, Ed P wrote:
>
>>>
>>> In reality, I trust my camera more than my turned head.
>>
>> Not me... even if I had some sort of back-up camera, I'd prefer to see
>> behind me instead. I've driven my grandfather's 2014 RAV-4 with a
>> back-up camera, and I don't particularly trust it.
>>
>> Then again, my older cars have much smaller blind spots, smaller
>> b-pillars, and larger windows. Modern cars, particularly SUV's, are
>> particularly difficult to see out of when you turn around.
>
>I don't know what the view of that camera is, but new ones are far
>better. My 2023 is better than my 2018 that was better than my 2013.
>You do know why cameras were mandated don't you? Quite a few people
>backed over their kids playing behind the car was a big one.
>
>The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that on
>average, 210 people are killed in backover accidents each year. More
>than 7,000 are injured annually. Approximately half of all people killed
>in backover accidents each year are children.
It's part of natural selection, a way of eliminating children who play
behind cars, so they won't have children who do the same thing.
>Next time you are in the neighborhood you can drive my car and it will
>change your mind.
My rental car in 2022 for 4 months, a Citroen, had a backup camera, and
I liked the camera, but it turned off the radio sound. And sometimes I
was in the middle of an important news story. So I'd have to wait to
backup.
Do they all turn off the radio sound? I suppose the add-ons don't but
I wanted the next car to have it as original equipment.
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