XPost: alt.home.repair, alt.law-enforcement   
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   On 8/4/2023 3:28 AM, micky wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
      
   My 2017 VW Jetta has OEM radio and backup camera. When I shift to   
   reverse, the backup camera displays on the radio's LCD touch screen, but   
   the radio keeps going unfazed.   
      
   If yours turns off the radio, then maybe they want you to concentrate   
   when you backup. You might miss some car honking at you if your radio is   
   deafeningly loud.   
      
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