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Hi,
But you look to the front most of time than back. And why can't you use
side mirrors to look to the back. I think you're the one who can't tow
anything behind? How are you going to see the back of the trailer?
In many cases side mirrors are only way to look at the back.
I think your argument has a flaw too. I drive SUV, as a matter of fact
every member of my family does. Wife, daughter in early 20's(she is an
excellent driver!), teenage son, and myself. They all got proper 
professional training from driving school and they are oriented what
each vehicle can/can't do. Then there is no problem. In addition, I tow
7000 lbs. full height 5th wheel with 3/4 ton PU truck in summer. My only
means to see behind me when towing is via the side mirrors. Never had
any problem. BTW, the trailer is 28 feet long and where I live I can tow
another thing behind the trailer. If I hook up my boat, that is another
13 feet. As long as one knows what s/he is upto....
Tony

Eric Lee Green wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:59:26 GMT, dmcdd@my-deja.com <dmcdd@my-deja.com> wrote:
> >A higher seating position puts my eyeline above the roof of most small
> >cars. Your low car eyeline puts you even with most small cars. Since the
> >majority of city traffic is still cars, that puts those in a higher
> >seating position in the advantageous position of being able to see
> >farther ahead in traffic an anticipate situations before the car
> >immediatly ahead of them has to hit the brakes. That is a very large
> >advantage.
> 
> Which is cancelled out by a) the inability to see cars behind you
> due to the tall lift-gate (and often spare tire) blocking your rear
> vision, and b) huge blind spots on the sides caused by you being unable
> to see low enough to see cars beside you.
> 
> It's also harder to park with a tall vehicle because the tall nose blocks
> your view of low obstacles in front of you. You must guesstimate to a much
> larger extent than in a car. Makes it much easier to crunch the car in front
> of you in a parallel parking situation. (We already know about the rear
> visibility problem in a parallel parking situation).
> 
> Note that I'm not saying that SUV's are bad or evil or anything. I
> just am saying that only a moron thinks they have a visiblity
> advantage, because the visibility DIS-advantages cancel them out
> (especially the rear vision one -- one reason I did not buy an Isuzu
> Rodeo Sport was because I just flat couldn't see what was behind me).
> 
> Buy an SUV because you need the room, or the cargo capacity, or the
> offroad capability, or the towing capability, or any of the other real
> practical reasons to buy one. You don't have to invent imaginary
> reasons. It irritates me that people do that, because it allows
> everybody else to shake their heads and say "man, those 4x4 drivers,
> you know they're all nutcases in denial" or "man, those 4x4 drivers,
> they're such idiots they don't even know simple high school
> physics". Folks who try to deny the disadvantages of SUV's are setting
> up all 4x4 drivers to be viewed as the automotive equivalent of George
> W. Bush (congenial morons, at best).
> 
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> Eric Lee Green     Linux Subversives
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