# Backup Cameras required by law- not the best solution...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backup-cameras-required-by-law-not-the-best-solution/682309>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 26, 2014, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backup-cameras-required-by-law-not-the-best-solution/682309 "2014-02-26T10:28:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beelzebubba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Beelzebubba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beelzebubba)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backup-cameras-required-by-law-not-the-best-solution/682309/61 "2014-02-28T02:05:27Z")

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> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> 2014 CX-5, the middle trim package (I don’t remember the various packages).

That would be the Touring (if you’re in the U.S.) or the GS (if you’re in Canada). The CX-5 is very nice. It hit the market a few months after I bought my CX-9. If it had been out then, I probably would’ve bought a CX-5 instead.

Enjoy! =)

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backup-cameras-required-by-law-not-the-best-solution/682309/62 "2014-02-28T12:22:44Z")

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> [@Beelzebubba](#):
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> In my 23 years as a licensed driver, I’ve logged more than 650,000 miles. In all of those miles, I’ve only had one at-fault accident. I caused $890 in property damage and $0 in bodily injury and that was 12 years ago.
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> I’ve been in four other accidents and the other driver was determined to be 100% at-fault in all of them! =)

35+ years driving, coming up on a million miles in another 50k, only accident I have is to my car while I was in the bank that happened back in 1984. One ticket for tail light out back in 1991. [hubby is another matter but his driving record is not mine.] What other auto epeen do you want to compare? :dubious::rolleyes:

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> [@steronz](#):
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> A fact that I’m well aware of and constantly bemoan. Wagons are dead because consumers prefer SUVs. As a wagon lover, I now blame all SUV buyers for ruining it for the rest of us

I detest the idiots who seem to think that having an SUV somehow magically protects them from the laws of thermodynamics, and their driving reflects it. To be honest, back at my last job I vainly tried to convince a co worker with 3 kids that she really should get a minivan instead of an SUV [insurance and maintenance cost, less theft risk, better ergonomics and space for kids and their crap] but she wanted the ‘safety’ and ‘style’ of the SUV. Then she promptly goes out and rolls it in the next patch of winter bad weather. Her insurance agent told her that she should have gone for the minivan, and that no SUV will let her drive through bad winter weather like it was not there. All the spiffy winter driving commercials are done by professional drivers and are generally nothing that the average driver can actually do.

I think we do really need to bring back the station wagon as a replacement for some of the smaller SUVs and crossovers. The average SUV/huge pickup truck I have seen on the road has never been further off road than parking on the lawn at a party.

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