The backup camera is a significant improve to your safety and the safety of others around you. The importance of this is so significant that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has mandated that ALL cars manufactured after May 2018 must come with backup cameras as a standard feature. If your vehicle is not already equipped with this, we offer an after-market solution that is easily integrated into your vehicle.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) states that an estimated 292 fatalities and 18,000 people are injured as a result of vehicle backing out related accidents. This number is too high and can be easily reduced by equipping drivers with additional tools to monitor their surroundings. Based on visibility studies conducted by them, they have found that the addition of a back-up camera reduced the backing out blind zone by as much as 90 percent!
The IIHS has a great tool, that shows the coverage offered by side mirrors, back-up sensors, cameras, a shoulder check etc. It is an interactive tool, that you can try out here. quite amazing how wide of a coverage area offered by a back-up camera is. This coverage distance is unparalleled by no other existing standard car tool.
Image: Reference IIHS.org, backup camera range compared to other backing out sensors
Larger vehicles such as SUVs, pick-up trucks and Mini-vans have significantly more blind spots than a car and are thus more prone to backing out accidents. Additional to this, a backup camera significantly helps you when parking into tight spots, specially while reverse or parallel parking. If you occasionally tow a trailer or a boat using your vehicle, a backup camera again makes life significantly easier while giving you a view that you would otherwise have not had.