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  • Rules for rear cameras in vehicles delayed again

    Rules aimed at helping drivers avoid unintentionally backing over children, already overdue, are being delayed again following automaker complaints that requiring rearview video cameras systems on new cars and trucks would be too expensive.

  • Life-Saving Rearview Camera Regulations Delayed Again by U.S.

    For a split second, Sue Auriemma thought the screams came from the neighborhood kids. For a split second, she continued to back up her car in her driveway, unaware that her 3-year-old daughter, Kate, was behind the right rear tire.

  • Money Minute: Not enough focus on rearview cameras [Video]

    Sometimes you just gotta wonder. Federal regulators have been calling on the auto industry for years to help reduce accidents by installing rearview cameras on vehicles. Yet an official rule requiring such technology on new cars and trucks keeps getting postponed.

  • Back up cameras to become mandatory in all cars

    Time never heals the wound a mother suffers when she loses her precious child. Eight years ago, Ellen Adam's husband accidentally backed his minivan over their 1-year-old baby girl, Ashley, in Ponte Vedra Beach. She died from her injuries. Sadly, her husband never recovered from the incident, and took his own life a few years later.

  • Decision to require rear view cameras for new cars delayed

    Every week people are killed in back-over accidents. That’s something Anthony Nunez knows all too well. Back in 2007, he accidentally ran over his two-year-old son in his Denver driveway and killed him.

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