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The reverse camera is useful so you're not backing over some little kid. Anything else it does is a bonus.
or you could also just choose a small vehicle
There's still a blind spot on any size vehicle that isn't a two wheel motorcycle.
Maybe this makes me sound like a jerk, but my thinking in that regard was "I don't have children and rarely drive near other people's loose children. Why should I pay for hardware I don't need?"
First, yes it does. Second, you're not paying extra for it at least in the US as it's federally mandated equipment, you can't legally get a new car without a reverse camera.
I meant that I would be paying extra for it as opposed to a hypothetical car manufactured without the requirement. So it would be like having my taxes raised to pay for providing me something I didn't want.
Knowing that something rolled up just behind your car can be a saver in many ways... not running over surprise debris, for one, not hitting the neighbor's anti-cut boulder on the edge of the grass that you can't see when looking behind you for another...