Should backup sensors/alarms be required instead of cameras on new cars?

frick no. Can you imagine what it would sound like in a Costco parking lot? You'd never know which "I want to speak to your manager" housefrau is about to run you down.

EDIT: Oh, you mean proximity alarms in the cabin for the driver. Yeah. That feature is fricking awesome. I have collision sensors on both sides and directly behind and wish I'd had them years ago. When your only option is pull-in parking and have to back out into traffic, those approaching vehicle sensor are a fricking godsend. They'll pick up approaching vehicles from 30 yards out easy and sound the alarm that I've got approaching traffic and tell me which direction on the gauge cluster. Mine definitely goes off as well if something is within about 10 feet of the rear bumper and the car is in reverse.

I agree but seems like the minimum would’ve been the sensor not the camera.

One of my cars is camera and sensor beeps at me.

Other car is just camera.

You can do a bit more with that sensor security to whip that baby around.

I know of several women at work that have the back up cameras and don't use them

These same women have blue tooth in their cars and still talk with the cell phone in their hands.

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You have to be looking at the camera to see something is there.

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Isn’t that the issue with most accidents backing up? Not looking?


I have a backup camera and love it because I can see what is directly behind my bumper which I can’t see without a camera, and it gives me a much larger field of vision backing up than does my rear view mirror. Combined with my 2 side mirrors, I eliminate a lot of would be blind spots backing up. I don’t need an alarm because I’m not looking though. I’m looking. Maybe we should just start looking instead.

Why are you backing up without looking

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Neither should be required you fricking shitty driving despot

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Why are you against more safety? If I’m backing up, my car will sense and alert me of cars approaching from way far away on both sides. Cars that I can’t always see because the sensor is at the rear of my car.

It has nothing to do with being a shitty driver.

Not instead of cameras but maybe in addition to the camera. Back up cameras should be required on every car, at least every truck/SUV.

My point was if the govt was going to require anything it should be the alarm and not the camera.

Having a camera is useless if people don’t use it. The proximity sensor is actually an improvement over just the mirrors bc it can detects things you cannot see using the mirrors and alerts you to it.