Transport Canada To Require Backup Cameras on Light Vehicles by 2018
Transport Canada will require that all new cars and small trucks must be equipped with backup camera systems by May 2018. This safety measure applies to light vehicles including, passenger cars and small trucks, vans and buses.
“This helps children be seen and provides Canadians with one of the best safety technology systems to reduce back-over collisions,” Transport Minister Marc Garneau said in a statement in late October.
“The objective of this proposal is to align the Canadian and United States safety regulations, to provide Canadians with the same level of protection under the law related to back-over crashes offered to residents of the United States and to satisfy vehicle manufacturers’ call to eliminate regulatory differences between Canada and the United States,” Transport Canada said.
NHTSA made a similar requirement for the United States back in 2014, also with a 2018 deadline.
Backup camera systems and other vehicle safety technology certainly is the present as well as the future. More and more states are already allowing backup camera technology for driving tests. The next generation is growing up with backup cameras as a standard.
Garneau went on to say that children, disable persons, the elderly and other are vulnerable to backup accidents. Backup accidents are estimated to have killed 27 and injured more than 1,500 people from 2004-2009.
