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If back-up cameras are standard equipment on 90% of new vehicles, why is a government mandate needed?

75 posted on 04/01/2014 11:37:22 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))

Well that's simple, silly! To cover the 10% of Chinese crap cars he says are brought into the United States every year.

Funny, have you seen a Chinese car in the US? I haven't. Which again begs the question: why's this mandate needed if what he said is true?!

ROFL!

76 posted on 04/01/2014 11:42:39 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))

If back-up cameras are standard equipment on 90% of new vehicles, why is a government mandate needed?

Congress passed legislation in 2008 which required the transportation Board to promulgate regulations regarding backup safety. The car manufacturers new this was coming, so they began installing the cameras as standard equipment.

Regulations are only now being implemented. They go into effect in 2018. In other words, it took 7 years to get the bureaucrats in Washington to address this issue and to issue final regulations .

Manufacturers decided to go ahead and begin placing the cameras in as standard equipment before the regulations were even finalized.

80 posted on 04/01/2014 11:54:20 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)

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