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Rear-View Cameras On Cars Could Become Mandatory In the US
According to the Los Angeles Times, "The federal government wants automakers to install back-up cameras in all new vehicles starting in late 2014. The plan, announced Friday, received a strong endorsement from insurance industry and other analysts and is likely to get some level of support from car manufacturers. ... The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that, on average, 292 fatalities and 18,000 injuries occur each year as a result of back-over crashes. The agency said children and the elderly were the most common victims. About 44% of the fatalities in such accidents are children and 33% are people over 70, it said. NHTSA said its proposal was designed to keep drivers from running over pedestrians who might be crossing behind their vehicles. It could also prevent parking-lot bumper thumpers. The camera systems show motorists what's behind them via a video display on the dashboard. They typically feature a bell or alarm that alerts the driver if an object is within the camera's field of view."
Only if the front camera's video was taken at the same time of you randomly slamming on the brakes and going 50 on a busy highway because you are mashing the camera button to get your cut of the ticket stuff. Fair is only fair you know.
Damn, you are a jackass. If a normal person did what road-rage provoking crap you do, the X5 will then pass you in another lane no matter how hard you floor the accelerator to try to prevent it, hop six inches in front of your hood and drop 50-0 faster than you can go "durp, durp". It then will be your fault, and you will be paying for a new X5. Good luck outbraking the X5. They will be automatically bringing the vehicle to a stop and there will be no chance of a rear-ender (as you apparently want to cause) unless you stop and pop into reverse.
Don't forget that if you provoke the wrong person, you might end up with some bullet hole decorations... and not the stick on kind.
I hope you are not in the US, because you seem to be incapable of interacting with other humans in situations requiring life safety skills, and there are enough sociopaths on our roads already.
Yet another example of how 99% of regulation is utter bullshit. Can we start to trim the fat please?
Liberty.