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I'm surprised people in this thread are seriously trying to argue that backup cameras are a bad idea.
Y'all can be all, "well a GOOD driver doesn't need it, and BAD drivers should get off the road," which might sound nice, but let's get real here:
Almost every driver is bad.
Including me and you.
Because we're human. We're not perfect. We can get distracted. We might not hear something. There's a blind spot. We're normally calm but this one time we're in a hurry. Etc. The camera helps make this stuff easier and safer.
I was in my Mustang once (not very tall) in a parking lot and someone in a CRV backed into me because his rearview mirror did not allow him to see me. Maybe if he checked his side mirrors he would have been able to see me, but for whatever reason he didn't, and I got smoked. But if he had a backup camera (easier to check than either the rearview or sides) he would have seen me and an accident could have been avoided.
Should he have checked his side mirrors? Yeah, sure, but fact is he didn't. Not sure why, maybe he was distracted or anything else on that list above. Or maybe he did check them but my car was black and he couldn't see it anyway. But irrespective of why he backed into me, that accident cost his insurance company about $2000 and all that money was used for was fighting entropy instead of something productive and I had to waste time dealing with a body repair shop. I want the next guy to have a backup camera so I don't get smoked.
Also, I used to be in the same camp -- "I don't need a backup camera, I can parallel park like a damn pro, I can put this car anywhere I want to." Well, I installed a Kenwood stereo in my G2 Insight, and like it had a camera feature, so a few months later I put a backup camera on the car that wires to the new stereo.
I want to tell you, it is the god damned best thing I have ever put on a car. At night I can easily back down the driveway to park my car. No problems at all I can see everything and I don't have to twist my head and stuff. It is so much easier to back into parking spots too, it even has the tire location markers so I know what I'm going to run into and what I'm not going to run into. It's the greatest thing ever. Did I NEED it? No. But is it fantastic? Yes. It absolutely is.
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