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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.
The danger of blind zones
This chart shows the length of the blind zone of each listed vehicle. The distance noted is how far behind the vehicle a 28-inch traffic cone had to be before the person, sitting in the driver's seat, could see its top by looking through the rear window.
U.S. delays phase-in of rear view safety systems on cars
Long-awaited rules aimed at helping drivers avoid unintentionally backing over children are being delayed again following complaints from automakers that requiring rearview video cameras systems on new cars and trucks would be too expensive.
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.
