I need a paper written for my Research and writing class

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The topic selected for research is whether or not cars and trucks should be required to use back cameras. The installation of backup cameras is one of the measures that have been put in place by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) with an aim of seeing to it that road safety is a guarantee for all road users. One major reason that triggered the selection of this topic is the fact that a large percentage of the population currently uses cars to move from one point to another and these cars interact with a lot of other pedestrians on the roads and any given environment. This, therefore, puts all pedestrians at risk of accidents that may result from careless use of automobiles. Another reason is that there has been an increasing trend in the occurrence of back over accidents which are in most cases unintentional. The affected people have been children, people with disabilities and animals as well (Kidd & Brethwaite, 2014). At least two hundred people die yearly due to car reversing, most of whom are children. More than fifteen thousand are also injured during back up accidents every year (Kidd & Brethwaite, 2014). The bottom line for all this is safety for all users, perhaps, more importantly, saving their lives.

The first audience for this discussion would be all car manufacturers because they are the ones responsible for the production of cars and trucks. The current view of the car manufacturers on this topic is that installing cameras on vehicles during manufacture would make the vehicles expensive and thus they are bound to lose market or rather have their sales significantly decrease. They, therefore, have an option of either complying or failing to comply thus a significant decision making capacity. They should manufacture their cars with cameras already installed despite the fact that the cost of the car will definitely increase. By so doing, all car buyers will have cameras in their cars already installed and the reckless avoidable accidents will be curbed. The cameras will help to prevent back over accidents that are in most cases extremely deadly (Spencer, Ellis & Tracy, 2016). The buyers or car users are also other audiences as they have to make a decision on boycotting all cars without these cameras installed. They have to be educated on the importance of the cameras so that they insist on purchasing only the vehicles that have been installed back cameras.

The paper will basically look at a brief history or background of the problem, case studies regarding the importance of back cameras on cars, types of available cameras for cars and trucks and a conclusion of the results of the study. The outline will comprise an abstract, introduction and literature review, a method of research, results, a discussion of the results and recommendations. It will finally give the references.

The research questions will be:

What is the importance of back cameras on cars and trucks?

Should cars and trucks be required to use back cameras?

The research will use secondary data which is readily available in past researches and articles that address the topic. This method of information gathering has been chosen because it is cost effective and the data is already available. I intend to go through related research and some of the latest articles to collect all the relevant information regarding the topic. The information will be analyzed and conclusions are drawn, from which recommendations will also be generated.

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