In rec.autos.tech, on Tue, 14 May 2019 21:45:48 -0700, Sanity Clause
> wrote:

>Rod Speed wrote:
>
>>> micky wrote:
>>>> According to some newspaper article online, back up cameras have
>>>> cut by only 10 percent (in cars that have them) the number of
>>>> times someone backs into a person.
>>
>>> I imagine those 10% are happy about it.
>>
>> Specially the ones that have avoided killing their little kids
>> who have been run over like that. I actually know one person who
>> managed to do that.
>
>I would also imagine that if the radio volume was to automatically
>reduce to below bleeding-ears level when backing up, the driver would
>most likely be able to hear little Suzie screaming "DADDY, STOP!!!!".

That's a good point, and if there had been any small children around in
the tens of 1000's of times I've backed up over the last decade, for
example, it would apply to me. But there haven't been.