According to Consumer Reports, 526 individuals died in “frontover” accidents in 2020, many of them youngsters. Often these lethal occasions happen in driveways or parking tons. You can watch an NBC News report on the problem right here (beneath the petition) that reveals children lined up in entrance of numerous vans and SUVs. Or if that hyperlink expires, you may watch it right here.
Senator Richard Blumenthal has launched a invoice make front-end cameras and detection sensors commonplace expertise in new vans. While I’m positive this is able to assist, it additionally strikes me as a Rube Goldbergian resolution. Americans are utilizing machines so tall and big to maneuver their our bodies by way of house that elaborate programs of video feeds and alarms are needed to allow them to see what’s immediately in entrance of them? THIS IS COMPLETELY ABSURD.
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