Gentex Rear Camera Display Mirrors Exceed Proposed U.S. NHTSA Requirements

Gentex Corporation GNTX today provided an update on the capabilities of the Company's Rear Camera Display Mirrors, which exceed certain requirements of the December 7, 2010, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration promulgated related to the Kids Transportation Safety Act. In addition, recent independent studies reveal that mirror-borne displays are more effective in helping drivers detect and avoid backover accidents, when compared with drivers using in-dash displays.* The Kids Transportation Safety Act is a law intended to expand the field-of-view behind vehicles in order to prevent pedestrian injuries and deaths from backover accidents. The December 7, 2010, NPRM requires that global automakers install backup cameras and related video displays in all new vehicles in the U.S. by September 2014 (with a phase-in of certain percentages of vehicles before then). The NPRM provides certain requirements for those backup cameras and displays, including that the display must turn "on" in two seconds or less from the time that the vehicle is put in the reverse gear, and that the luminance/brightness of the display must be at least 500 cd/m(2).