[usconservative]

You're just one big government loving RINO. If you don't want a backup mirror don't buy a new car. They are already standard equipment on 90% of the new cars sold. This regulation is not really going to have that much of an economic effect except on possibly some junk cars that would come out of China.

Wrong. Don't FORCE your views on the marketplace because you're too stupid to LOOK before you back-up, dumbass.

They're not "standard equipment" on 90% of new cars. You have no flipping clue what you're talking about. They're a luxury priced item. You don't know JACK about which cars do or do not have them.

There are legitimate reasons for some federal regulations. Safety is a legitimate ground for regulation of interstate commerce.

This isn't one of them at $520,000,000 per "life saved."

The Commerce Clause is often abused with unconstitutional burdensome regulations, but the safety of vehicles sold and used in interstate commerce is a legitimate concern of the federal government.

The Commerce Clause is being abused here also. Safety has nothing to do with it, it's about putting more money in the Auto Union's pockets. Remember them? They have majority stakeholder status in both GM and Chrysler/Fiat.

You have no damn' clue.

Our founders did put the commerce clause in the constitution. The federal government does have a legitimate role in the regulation of interstate commerce and vehicle safety is a legitimate purpose for which that clause can be used. If you don't like it, then change the Constitution.

Oh, I get it, because you're a nanny state statist who insists on putting your hands in my wallet when buying a new car, I should change the Constitution to stop you from doing so? Oh you're a hoot!

I don't need to change the Constitution to stop the likes of you. The Free Market's gonna have a say on this.

[Mr Rogers]

“Nearly 60% of 2014 vehicles are already equipped with rear-camera or sensor technology.”

My wife tended to assume the sensor technology meant she could back up anytime she didn’t hear beeping. She was proven wrong.

Mirrors work. Markets work. Government does not.

[P-Marlowe]

The Free Market's gonna have a say on this.

And from this day forward even before these regulations go into effect I would suspect that every vehicle built will have a backup camera as a standard safety feature. A car manufacturer that does not include the camera could end up with a Pinto lawsuit with hundreds of millions of dollars in punitive damages if some two year old gets run over by a neighbor driving a new car that didn't have one.

It has been established that a back up camera is a necessary safety feature. Any manufacturer that does not include it risks bankruptcy if a fatal injury occurs because they wanted to save some money by not putting one in.