REPORTS: US to require rearview cameras on all cars by 2014
Within two years, all US cars must have rearview cameras on all cars,
several media outlets have reported.
According to both the New York Times
and KidsAndCars, over 50 children in the US are hurt every week when they get
caught behind a moving vehicle. Of those, two die.
This week the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration will announce plans to combat the problem by
mandating all passenger vehicles come equipped with rearview cameras by 2014, thecarconnection.com
reports.
The regulation stems from a 2008 law called the Cameron Gulbransen Kids
Transportation Safety Act, which required the NHTSA to gather information about
rear-visibility and set appropriate safety standards, thecarconnection.com
reports. The law was named for two-year-old Cameron
Gulbransen, who was killed after being struck by an SUV driven by his
father.
Safety features abound for the inside of carsair bags and the Liddy Light, the break
light named for Elizabeth Dole, who made it standard as secretary of transportation
in the late 1980s. But this is one of the biggest steps taken to protect those outside a vehicle.
The cost, according to the online report wont be too prohibitive: $160-200
per vehicle; meanwhile, the installment could cut injuries and deaths in half.
