Just using your rear-view camera doesn't really constitute "looking" before you back up.
How else do you explain the fact that you backed into another car, even though "no one was coming when I checked my monitor"?
Next time, try expending the 3 calories necessary to actually turn your head to the side and look, and maybe you'll see the oncoming traffic instead of just the 8 square feet directly behind you.
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You hear the best excuses...better than the ones I've heard from students and parents in my role as a high school teacher.
Still better than what happened to me some years ago. She backed out, I saw that I couldn't evade and did the only thing I could: Laid on the horn.
She heard me, she thought I was just objecting to her backing out in front of me. While the damage was tiny she managed to hit right between the front and rear doors, a ding a little over an inch wide was over $1000 to fix.
And yet we are in the process of mandating these rear view cameras. I have one and it is useful, but only when backing into a defined parking spot. Otherwise people, crane your head around because you never know who might step, drive, or ride into the space you are about to occupy.
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