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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
Totally agree with the tablet/phone comments as well.
Yes there were boats in the 2000s, but they were not quite as bad as what we have now, and more importantly they were much less common. In 2000, US car sales and light truck sales were about 50/50. It's now 70/30 trucks.
The window part you mention is a big aspect that has changed too. As vehicle heights have grown, so have belt lines to protect passengers when the newest, biggest thing rams into them. Windows are tiny and visibility is terrible now.
Look how much lower the windows went on a 2006 Expedition compared to a current model:
The approach to safety is that success is keeping the person in the vehicle alive. There is no consideration to what happens outside the vehicle. |
This annoys me. My wife's Acura? The sightlines are atrocious! Who designed this thing?
"Well you dont need to shoulder check anymore, we have sensors for that! You dont need to see where you're going when you're backing up, we have cameras for that!"
Guys...I prefer to actually SEE whats around me and where I'm going.