A new study adds strong support to a proposed rule that would require backup cameras on new cars and trucks. It shows the cameras are far more effective at spotting children and other obstacles than less sophisticated parking sensors or drivers using their mirrors.
Backup cameras are already found on many of the latest cars, trucks and crossovers, but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has repeatedly delayed announcing formal rules that would make them mandatory something Congress and President Bush authorized in 2007. Thats despite NHTSAs own estimate that the devices could save as many as 200 lives a year including a large number of children under the age of five inadvertently run over when motorists back up.
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