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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone one of you people nattering on about safety has a rear camera that allows you to back up with certainty that nothing is behind you or coming your way. The insistence on backing into parking spaces in parking garages is a ridiculous affectation, and when you do it with a line of people behind you, it's rude.

Here's the difference between the waiting that is done when you back in versus the waiting that is done when you back out. When you back in, everyone behind you has to wait for you (and IME, 90% of you can't get it on the first try). When you back out, *you* wait until the coast is clear, instead of making everyone else wait.

Are you ass-first people also the ones who don't know how to zipper merge? Maddening. [/quote]

Wrong on two counts:

1. Many, many people don't have rear cameras. I drive a 2010 Toyota without one. It's hardly the oldest car on the road.

2. [b]Backup cameras do not show you who is coming - you cannot use your camera to look left or right the way you can out a windshield[/b], it only looks immediately behind. You have to inch out while checking blind spots and mirrors and camera if you have one, and hope some pedestrian or speeding car isn't just out of sight behind the neighboring car's bumper. It's far more dangerous.

If you were a careful driver who looked out for backing cars, you wouldn't think backing in was slower. But you believe you can just blow by those moving reverse lights and trust that the car edging its butt out blindly will brake before they hit you. That's the actual difference in wait time.[/quote]

:shock: WTF. All cars still have rear windshields you can see out of. And, that's absolutely not true. My car beeps at me if there's a pedestrian walking in the periphery, such as about to approach my car. [/quote]

Actually no: many hatchbacks, vans, and pickups functionally have no view of cross traffic out the rear window. And even in a sedan or SUV, you cannot periscope out to see who is coming up the parking aisle.

Congrats on your expensive pedestrian detection system but most people don't have that even if they DO have cameras. [/quote]

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