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In rec.autos.driving dmcdd@my-deja.com wrote:
: the next car doing the same thing - not very far in my experience (My
: car before the Grand Cherokee was a Ford Probe - I've got small car
: experience also). That car driving just as far to the left as you are
: completly blocks your view of the road ahead.

Agreed. It's hard to get a good line of sight when everyone else is trying
the same thing and you end up with some one blocking your view, it could
very possibly be the car ahead of the car in front of you (which happens
enough times). Not to mention it really is only easy to do this if you can
look to the left of the cars, then you have everyone else in a car trying
the same thing, doesn't work very well.

: Driving in a higher position buys you line of sight until the next tall
: vehicle - and then the view that it blocks of the road ahead diminishes
: as distances increase.

Also agreed. And if it is right in front of you and isn't much taller than
you, you can look through it to at least see the car ahead of it (course
this goes back to you could probably at least see one car ahead of you
with a small car by trying to look around it).

But... I'd personally prefer ability to avoid a sudden accident than
seeing over because seeing over seems to really only help a lot when it
comes to stuff that most likely is stop and go traffic, not avoiding the
high speed bad accidents. And even in a small car, all you really gotta do
is give yourself some space from the person in front of you. As some one
else said no this thread, if you can only see the car in front of you,
you're too damn close.

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