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Today's vehicles have bigger blind spots but not where you think
- mikestew 1y agoTurns out it’s exactly where anyone with a newer vehicle would think: directly in front of and near the vehicle.
- southwindcg 1y agoYeah, my immediate thought was of those stupid giant pickup trucks whose hoods come up to my eye level.
- redwall_hp 1y agoAh yes, the Ford Youngling Slayer 3000s. It seems like everyone who drives one is also incapable of turning their steering wheel when they blunder out of a parking lot into a street, obstructing two lanes at 3mph.
- lttlrck 1y agoAtrophied Arm Steering Syndrome is endemic where I live. Not limited to trucks!
- rogerrogerr 1y agoThey probably ran over a curb at some point and are taking turns excessively wide to compensate.
- litoE 1y agoI remember reading about someone that had created a workaround for this. She had exterior cameras and their images were projected onto the car's pillars, so that when you looked at a pillar you actually saw "through it", i.e. the exterior view it was hiding. I wish I could find the reference.
- netsharc 1y ago"A pillar projection" in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-toCFKdeutM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-toCFKdeutM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC6R1RKt1RY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC6R1RKt1RY
- SilverElfin 1y agoDo you need that workaround when you have front cameras and sensors and automatic braking? The cars I’ve recently been in all warn you of objects in that near region, and also slam on the brakes pretty violently (like all the way) if you are continuing to move towards them.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoI hear the new Canyonero has 360 view cameras as an option.
- rendaw 1y agoAny chance the traditional blindspots have been metricized and included in regulatory testing so car makers only care about those and not safety in general?