Report: NHTSA to delay backup camera regulations
 

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration</a> has asked Congress for more time to finalize new regualtions that would require automakers to <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/03/nhtsa-proposes-mandatory-backup-cameras-by-2014/">install backup cameras in all cars by 2014</a>. NHTSA announced the legislation in December, saying the move could save the lives of more than 100 people a year, mostly young children.<br />
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According to <em>The Detroit News</em>, NHTSA has informed Congress that it wants more time to finalize the rules, which were supposed to be ready today, since the public comment period has only been closed for a little while.<br />
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According to NHTSA, backup cameras could help prevent nearly 300 fatal backover-related accidents a year (of that total, around 100 are children younger than five and another third are elderly people).<br />
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NHTSA estimates that once the new regulations will cost the auto industry between $1.9 and $2.7 billion annually, once they go into effect. The cost per vehicle would be just shy of $159-$203 for cars without a pre-existing navigation screen, and $53-$88 for cars with a screen.<br />
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Interestingly, NHTSA estimates the industry-wide expense of the measure at between $1.9 billion to $2.7 billion, and it reportedly acknowledges that its own cost-benefit analysis standards indicate that the price tag of the regulation will far outstrip the cost associated with lives saved by the law. That is, NHTSA uses a working figure of the "comprehensive cost for a statistical life" at $6.1 million, but the costs per life saved by the backup camera legislation would likely tally somewhere between $11.3 to $72.2 million.<br />
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[Source: <a href="http://detnews.com/article/20110227/AUTO01/102270321/1148/rss25">The Detroit News</a> | Image: Damon Lavrinc/Autoblog/AOL]<p style="padding:5px;backgr ound:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/28/report-nhtsa-to-delay-backup-camera-regulations/">Report: NHTSA to delay backup camera regulations</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblo g</a> on Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:01:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://detnews.com/article/20110227/AUTO01/102270321/1148/rss25>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/28/report-nhtsa-to-delay-backup-camera-regulations/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19861572/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/28/report-nhtsa-to-delay-backup-camera-regulations/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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