🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:50:36 -0800, Mike Locke <lockem@scrserv.com> wrote:
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>Kiki <tigress@havoc.gtf.org> wrote in message
>news:93pmpn$4d5$1@news-int.gatech.edu...
>> In rec.autos.driving Eric Lee Green <eric@badtux.org> wrote:
>> :
>>  vision, and b) huge blind spots on the sides caused by you being unable
>> : to see low enough to see cars beside you.
>> Agreed... I always move over slowly in the Pathfinder in case I didn't see
>> anyone (that way they have time to honk or get out of my way). I'm not
>>I've got two extremely different vehicles: 2000 Dodge RAM 2500 4x4 and 1999
>Mazda Protege'.  The roof of the Protege' does not come up to the bottom of
>the windows of the truck.  I can tell you without qualification that I can
>see to the sides far better in the TRUCK than in the car.

I've never had any problem with seeing out of a truck, for some reason
(once I got used to looking around that big pillar immediately behind
my left shoulder). An SUV is a different story. I think it's got to do
with all that sheetmetal and glass continuing on back to what would be
the "tailgate" of a truck. Sort of like driving a truck with a camper
shell on it.

I drive a tall station wagon at the moment (a Subaru Forester) and
even this relatively low-slung beasty has a nice big blind spot off
the left rear because of all that sheetmetal and glass back there.
This thing has *huge* side mirrors, so I'm now relying on my side
mirrors a lot more than I used to.  I'm thinking about putting one of
those little "dime" mirrors onto a corner of the left mirror, because
if I tilt the side mirror out enough to see into the next lane (so I can
change lanes), I can't see the rear of my car anymore. I never had that
problem when I was driving a little hatchback econo-box. Of course, that
little hatchback econo-box was also rough riding and buzzy on the highway
(sigh)...

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