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The first backup camera was just a friend screaming directions. Technology really just replaced unreliable people.

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Backup cameras are electronic. A rear-view camera appeared on the 1956 Buick Centurion concept car, and production cars began offering them decades later. Friends shouting directions were never the first system.

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