Backup Sensors

Below is a news article on how using backup sensors on your vehicle could save lives:
On March 26, South Florida's Sun-Sentinel reported that a local woman, whose two-year- old daughter was killed before her eyes as a neighbor's car backed over her, is on a mission. Legislation in Congress to make backup sensors mandatory has bipartisan support, but the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers opposes it, saying the sensors are reliable only in detecting inanimate objects and cameras are prohibitively expensive.

Below is another article on the Feds saying backup sensors do not help:
Federal safety regulators have told Congress they need more time to study back-up sensors -- the new devices being used on vehicles to warn drivers when they are about to back over children or other persons and objects.
As is often the case, the safety regulators are bolstering the auto industry's positions. Automakers have been fighting efforts to make the back-up sensors mandatory, saying the systems would cost hundreds of millions of dollars while saving few, if any, lives.

The Debate:
The debate continues on backup sensors and if they really help drivers. Statistically shown backup sensors do help in decreasing the amount of deaths per year regarding reversing over a person. For example in Beaumonth a family outing on a hot summer day two years ago ended in tragedy when a 3 year old was killed in the parking lot of a crowded sno-cone stand.
The family is now in the midst of a lawsuit against Ford Motor Company, claiming that the toddler's death could have been prevented if the 2001 Ford Expedition that backed over him had been equipped with ultrasonic rear sensors.
Idont believe that having backup sensors on your vehicles should be mandatory but i firmly agree that having them will definitley decrease the amount of tragedies that occur with the result of not being able to hear/see what is behind you.