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Road Warrior: Jury’s still out on rearview cameras
After four years of false starts, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood last week came close to asking Congress to force automakers to mandate rearview cameras on all new cars, a feature designed to save 100 lives a year — half of them toddlers killed by cars backing out of driveways.
"Back-over deaths devastate families Mandatory cameras are again deferred"
“Tragic accident.” It’s the description given, over and over again, as four U.S. families every week bury a loved one — often a child — who was backed over and killed. It’s one that Tiffiany Schmidt, 31, heard when her 2-year-old son, Wesley, was backed over by his father in Clarksville, Tenn., in 2006.
Government Backs Up On Rearview Car Cameras
The statistics are pretty grim — on average 300 people a year die after being hit by cars backing up, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Half of them are children younger than 5.
Mandatory rearview cameras in vehicles would help save children: An editorial
For more than a year the Obama administration has postponed issuing rules to phase in the camera requirement. The latest delay came this week, when Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the rules, originally required by February 2011, won't be ready until the end of the year.
BABBLING BROOK: Children are dying; we bailed out automakers...
Have you ever started to back up your vehicle and then caught movement in your rearview mirror? Maybe a person darting behind you, or another car backing out at the same time in a parking lot? Me too.
