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GoodThoughts
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Do you have a backup camera on your car?
Yes, but I never look at it. Well, I look at it before I start moving, but I don't use it beyond that.
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alexb
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Re: Do you have a backup camera on your car?
Posted by ANewDayHasCome
Yes. BY May 2018 it will be mandatory for all new cars were to have them. A 2 year old LI toddler was killed when he was backed over and his family, along with a Dix Hills (Alec Nelson) family fought relentlessly for this law.
It's the Cameron Gulbransen law (safety act).
Very true... The father is a very well known doctor in our town and a published photographer. I cant imagine what he went through during that terrible ordeal.
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| Posted 3/14/17 10:15 PM |
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ElizaRags35
My 2 Girls
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Do you have a backup camera on your car?
Both cars have one. One car also has a blind spot camera.
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| Posted 3/14/17 11:23 PM |
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GoldenRod
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Re: Do you have a backup camera on your car?
Posted by PhyllisNJoe
No. I Drive an 11yr old truck. Driving it til its dead.
All of DHs trucks have had it.
That's why I added an aftermarket camera to my 17 year old truck, and my 15 year old car, as well as DW's 6 year old van. 
They're actually pretty cheap, and not that hard to install. For the car and van, I used the rear-view mirror monitors. It clips on over the stock mirror, and acts like a normal rear-view mirror until the car is put into reverse. Then, the camera is turned on, and the mirror displays the camera view.
On my truck, I have a separate monitor, since I have a forward-facing camera that is always on, and it switches to the rear-view when I go in reverse.
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| Posted 3/15/17 12:10 AM |
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JennZ
MY LIFE!!
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Re: Do you have a backup camera on your car?
yes and I hate it.
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| Posted 3/15/17 9:43 AM |
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eroxgirl
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Re: Do you have a backup camera on your car?
Posted by luvbuffet
I have it but I don't look at it. It also beeps when I'm near an object which is annoying
My DH doesn't use ours either, which explains why we have a huge scratch on our rear drivers-side bumper from when he backed into a stone light fixture in a parking lot and why he has a property damage claim from backing into a Mercedes on his record. 
I can't drive without it anymore.
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| Posted 3/15/17 10:35 AM |
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Re: Do you have a backup camera on your car?
No - my SUV is from 2012 and it does not have one. It does have the backup sensors, though, that beep when I'm close to something in the rear
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Jennifer
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Re: Do you have a backup camera on your car?
Nope. I have brand new wrangler and it did not come with one.
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| Posted 3/15/17 10:38 AM |
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jams92
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Do you have a backup camera on your car?
yes and i dont like it
I got a new car last year (prior to that I did not have one). I cannot adjust to using it; I still look back. let's not talk about when it rains and snows...it is unusable
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phoenix913
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Re: Do you have a backup camera on your car?
Yes, we got a minivan last summer and it came standard. I don't really use it though. I prefer to turn and use the mirror. I do like the motion sensor for if cars are passing behind me while I back up. Although it is absurdly loud.
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Xelindrya
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Do you have a backup camera on your car?
Nope. I have no desire to get one. I know that eventually I'll own a car with one but I'm in no rush. My 2011 doesn't have it and I'm content. My aunt has a newer car than mine and she doesn't have it either. Thank heaven!
I find too many people who drive with them depend on them too much and don't look back. Those who don't ignore them completely and don't care when it gets to red, solid tone beep, etc. What's the point?
The next car I'm looking at buying actually has one. Which is fine, but I don't think I'll ever 'rely' on it. I think it's a great feature but not to be used as a replacement to the fact that we need to look where we are driving and be aware of our surroundings.
I drive with my side mirrors positions in a way that I never see my own car. I never understood why you ever want to see your car, that's not the point of the side mirrors. So I never have a 'blind' spot. My three mirrors work together so that there's no such thing. I never lose sight of a car. I see a piece of any vehicle if it's in the lane next to me on either side at all times.
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| Posted 3/16/17 11:28 AM |
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Tulips915
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Re: Do you have a backup camera on your car?
Yes. Came with the last two cars I got. I love it. I hate driving a car without it. 
Makes parallel parking SO MUCH easier.
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angelicd77
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Re: Do you have a backup camera on your car?
I have one on my RDX and if I ever end up with another car its going to be a must have. I swear by that thing!!
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| Posted 3/16/17 12:25 PM |
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Salason
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Re: Do you have a backup camera on your car?
Posted by luvbuffet
I have it but I don't look at it. It also beeps when I'm near an object which is annoying
You may be able to turn the beeping off. BF added a huge bike rack onto the back of his Durango and it beeped nonstop until he figured out how to shut it off.
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| Posted 3/16/17 12:39 PM |
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summerBaby10
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Re: Do you have a backup camera on your car?
My car is 6 years old so I do not have one. Dh has a new car & has one. I hate it. It totally throws me off.
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sometimesmommy
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Do you have a backup camera on your car?
Yes. My audi has and the motion sensors. I've driven cars without and though I don't solely depend on the camera it does come in handy for me.
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