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US vehicle safety regulators are proposing rear cameras on all new cars in an attempt to prevent some of the hundreds of deaths caused each year by drivers reversing over pedestrians.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the US proposed on Friday that every new vehicle has a reversing cameras by 2014. It said an average of 292 people in the US – mainly children and the aged – are killed every year when drivers don’t detect others in their blind spots when reversing.
Furthermore, the NHTSA estimates that about 18 000 people a year are hurt in reversing accidents, 3000 of them sustaining “incapacitating” injuries. The agency said 44% of the incidents involved children younger than five.
The regulator did not specify the kind of technology to be used but added that the most effective option it evaluated was the rearview video system.
It is estimated that the cost of implementing the plan could reach $2.7-billion (about R18.6-billion).
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the US proposed on Friday that every new vehicle has a reversing cameras by 2014. It said an average of 292 people in the US – mainly children and the aged – are killed every year when drivers don’t detect others in their blind spots when reversing.
Furthermore, the NHTSA estimates that about 18 000 people a year are hurt in reversing accidents, 3000 of them sustaining “incapacitating” injuries. The agency said 44% of the incidents involved children younger than five.
The regulator did not specify the kind of technology to be used but added that the most effective option it evaluated was the rearview video system.
It is estimated that the cost of implementing the plan could reach $2.7-billion (about R18.6-billion).
