Comment by charlie0
8 hours ago
Lol, 1 to 4 is just called "knowing how to drive". These cameras aren't a serious value add unless you're driving a massive tank, err car.
8 hours ago
Lol, 1 to 4 is just called "knowing how to drive". These cameras aren't a serious value add unless you're driving a massive tank, err car.
Backup cameras have been legally required on new vehicles for like a decade. It is well understood to prevent accidents.
There are hundreds of millions of drivers with new ones entering and old ones exiting the roads all the time.
If you want to practically improve safety you have to make the vehicles safer, you can't just hope pointing fingers at bad drivers is gonna do anything.
The rear window in trucks and SUVs is above the head height of a small child. w/o a backup camera there is literally no way to see if a small child is behind you.
So many parents ran over their own child that backup cameras are now mandatory in the US.
That's why you check all around the car before setting off.
Unfortunately children playing in the yard have ample time to get behind the car between you checking it, entering the car, starting it, and reversing.
Yes, in principle one could take whatever other measures necessary to prevent such accidents. In reality, backup cameras save lives. Just like seatbelts, anti-lock brakes, crash safety standards, and other safety features that "Real Manly Drivers" protested against back in the day.
Children tend to move around.
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Parking in a dense European city is much easier with the rear camera. The pure radar version is ok but the camera really allows you to use every inch.