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And running the wiring with the rear lights wiring is sooooooo expensive to install.

They could ban the screens and keep the camera with a small screen that only displays the rear camera when in reverse and nothing else.

They would have done the screens without the backup cameras.

Same with requirements for cruise control, lights, brakes, and pretty much everything else on the car. Hell, most windshield wipers are probably more complex than just having a camera that displays on a screen when in reverse.

A backup camera doesn’t require any kind of connection to anything other than the display for the driver. At the most basic level it is a safety feature like headlights at night and brakes that does not have an inherent connection to anything other than the camera. No recording requirement, not broadcasting, nothing.

You are conflating things that don’t have anything to do with that basic concept.

They did consider that and gave you the option to turn it off.

That is something I think they should encourage and companies could use as a selling point, but don’t see it as a requirement to include myself either.

Back up cameras as a requirement does not require an infotainment that steals data, just a camera and a way to display it to the driver. The fact that car companies tied it into other things doesn’t make the core requirement comparable to 1984.

For example, at least one car I drove had the backup camera display in the rear view mirror, not the infotainment screen.

Back up cameras are also important for sedans, hatchback, and anything else where you can’t see something 24 inches tall right behind the rear bumper. They are a benefit for every enclosed vehicle, just like airbags and abs.

It is without precedent because we don’t hold people in power accountable. Being the first time it has been attempted doesn’t mean the case doesn’t have merit.

Or Mamdani said something that was true but in a way that Trump took as a compliment because Trump thinks a lot of horrible things are positives.

They are probably conflating criticism of Israel’s government with antisemitism.