The back-up camera is a regulation designed to increase the base price of automobiles as part of the federal government’s continuing plan to make cars so expensive that only the rich can afford to drive them, thereby forcing the non-rich to live grouped together like sardines in urban areas where they can be more easily controlled.
It’s got nothing to do with safety and everything to do with an overarching government continuing the process of establishing absolute control over every aspect of our lives.
What makes you think someone who cannot be bothered to look in his mirror while backing up his car would bother to look at a video screen on his dashboard while backing up his car?
The fact that you think back-up cameras are a great thing does not mean they are actually a great thing.
Unless you are on a motorcycle, there is a blind spot behind your car that could contain a two year old on a big wheel. With the back up camera you can see the kid and avoid killing him and ruining your own life as well as the lives of the family of the kid.
Congress ordered the transportation department to promulgate rules to prevent this kind of accident. It is within Congress' enumerated powers to do so. This regulation is the kind of regulation that is a legitimate use by Congress of its limited powers.
It will save lives. And the benefit to the consumer of being able to parallel park without taking out your tail light is worth the extra cost IMHO. '