02-13-2008, 11:28 AM
Dave Wrote:For the record, the problem in trucks and SUVs is not visibility, it is the assclown driving that doesn't give a shit. I drive a big f'in truck every day and have never had any problems merging in on people or scrubbed against something and not realized it/not expected it (the only things I've hit was a trashcan in the middle of a parking space I intentionally rammed and a traffic cone).
Large vehicles promote idiocy because people drive them like cars. They don't realize or care they have to take special care in driving the thing and it results in more incidents. A lot of people can drive them without incident but if the average person is pretty clueless and you stick them in a big ass SUV, they're gonna be just as clueless. Since we haven't yet developed a "not stupid" ray gun, I'd rather they be clueless in a sedan.
....and no matter how carefully you drive, I still can't see around you when backing out of a parking space, driving down the highway or trying to make a right turn when you're making a left next to me.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth