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[bronsin]

My advice is dont install the camera.

Here what going to happen.

You install the camera. You use it for years. Maybe decades. You believe with all your heart it works.

One day you look in your camera. The area IMMEDIAELY BEHIND YOUR CAR is empty. You believe there is no child behind you. You back and and run over and crush to death a two year old, who, out of the vision of you camera, breaks free of its parents hand 20 feet down the sidewalk. Where your camera cannot see it. The child runs down the sidewalk, frantically chased by its horrified parent. The parent sees your car begin to move. They scream but either no sound comes out, or you do not hear it, or everything happens to fast to make any difference. For several seconds in their mind they know they are about to see your car with its camera run over their child. But there is nothing they can do about it.

Because you believe you have done the right thing by installing a camera to prevent just such a thing from happening, and because you have been for years using it successfully, you back up secure in the knowledge there is nothing behind you.

You run over and kill the child in front of its parents anyway.

That is how accidents happen.

My advice? LOOK BEHIND YOU BEFORE BACKING UP! Look REAL good. Both ways. If there is an obstruction back up SLOWLY as though a child might run out from behind it.

Because someday it might.