Backup Sensor Information

VEHICLE BACKUP ACCIDENTS ARE PREVENTABLE
Tragedy is striking close to home all across America, killing hundreds of children every year and injuring thousands more and it’s 100% preventable. It’s something no parent wants to think about: something bad happening to their children.

THE FACTS:
According to research by Kids and Cars,an organization devoted to preventing motor-vehicle-related deaths and injuries, 49% of the non-traffic, non-crash fatalities involving children under 15 from 2001-2005 were caused by vehicles backing up. The CDC reported that from 2001-2003, an estimated 7,475 children (2,492 per year) under the age of 15 were treated for automobile back-over accidents. In its “Deaths and Injuries Resulting from Certain Non-Traffic and Non-Crash Events,” report issued in May of 2004, the National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration found that back-up accidents most often:
Occur in residential driveways and parking lots
Involve sport utility vehicles (SUVs) or small trucks
Occur when a parent, relative or someone known to the family is driving
Particularly affect children less than five years old

WHAT YOU CAN DO:
In the same way you explain to your child to be careful crossing the street, tell them not to ever walk or play behind a car. Always walk behind your car before backing out to ensure that no one or nothing is behind your car before you back it up. Even when you take these precautions, though – you never know when a child is going to ride behind your car on their bike, or when a toddler is going to dart in your reversing car’s path.

To account for these unforeseeable occurrences, Kids and Cars suggests that parents take safety measures such as: “installing cross view mirrors, audible collision detectors, rear view video camera and/or some type of back up detection device.” There are a number of different backup sensor systems that you can buy for your vehicle.

HOW DO BACKUP SENSORS WORK?
When you engage you vehicle in reverse, the rear backup sensors that are installed on your back bumper or license plate frame send ultrasonic waves to detect obstacles behind your vehicle. Then the controller receives the signal and transmits it to the speaker that is installed under your seat, or if the product comes with a display, then the signal is transmitted to the display unit.

The parking sensor emits long intermittent beeps at 4-8 feet and as you move closer to the obstacle, the beep increases in frequency. When you are 1 foot away, the sound is continuous. The power for our parking sensor is supplied by tapping into reverse lights which means that the device is only on when your car is in reverse!

Below is a video of a lady backing her vehicle up. With the help of an older gentleman this process is expediated. If this man was not able to help her out, chances are she would have ran something over. A car's vehicle has too many blindspots and without careful monitoring of all angles of the car it is very easy to back your car over something. With a backup sensor all your troubles disappear and you can relax knowing while your cars reversing, nothing stands in the way without you knowing it.