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  • U.S. Rule Set for Cameras at Cars’ Rear

    Federal regulators plan to announce this week that automakers will be required to put rearview cameras in all passenger vehicles by 2014 to help drivers see what is behind them.

  • Back Up Cameras To Be Installed In All New Cars

    Karen Cuputo’s toddler didn’t survive a backover accident in 2007. The Carlisle mother told Eyewitness News about the loss of her 20-month-old son Dillon. “You never get over it, you deal with it,” said Karen. “You try to make something positive come out of the tragedy.”

  • Fed Gov't To Require Rear-View Mirrors On Some Cars Sold In US

    Two weeks after her second birthday, Veronica Rosenfeld was killed. She was run over accidentally by a neighbor backing out of his driveway in Boca Raton. For the six years since then, Veronica's mother, Arden, had made it her mission to make rear-view cameras standard equipment in vehicles.

  • U.S. Delays Rule on Rearview Car Cameras

    Safety regulators will not complete the details of a rule mandating rearview cameras on all passenger vehicles until the end of the year, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told Congressional leaders on Tuesday.

  • Federal regulators push to require rear view cameras in cars by 2014

    By 2014, every new passenger car on the road will have a rearview camera, if federal regulators have their way. The final draft of the rule, which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected to send to Congress on Wednesday, would require automakers to install the backup function.

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