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.
I 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.
Do 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.
Any chance the traditional blindspots have been metricized and included in regulatory testing so car makers only care about those and not safety in general?
Turns out it’s exactly where anyone with a newer vehicle would think: directly in front of and near the vehicle.
Yeah, my immediate thought was of those stupid giant pickup trucks whose hoods come up to my eye level.
Ah 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.
They probably ran over a curb at some point and are taking turns excessively wide to compensate.
Atrophied Arm Steering Syndrome is endemic where I live. Not limited to trucks!
I 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.
"A pillar projection" in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-toCFKdeutM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC6R1RKt1RY
Do 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.
Any chance the traditional blindspots have been metricized and included in regulatory testing so car makers only care about those and not safety in general?
I hear the new Canyonero has 360 view cameras as an option.