On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 10:57:36 -0800, John David Galt
> wrote:

>Dave Head wrote:
>> Have had on-line conversations with truckers who claim that despite all the
>> mirrors its really tough to see things around and especially beside trucks.
>> They also say there's no room in a cab for a camera display for an electronic
>> rear-view mirror, that you couldn't keep the camera aimed properly, that you
>> can't keep it clean enough to work, etc.
>>
>> So, when's someone going to invent something that solves all these problems so
>> trucks can quit using the ineffective mirrors and start using 21st century
>> technology to make their presence not to be the menace it currently is?
>
>It doesn't take any super technology. School bus drivers solved this problem
>years ago by putting a chrome ball out in front of the bus, sort of like a
>hood ornament, where even a child squatting there can be seen by reflection.
>Just attach one of these to each side door of the truck cab, near the mirror.
>Problem solved. (Provided the trucker takes the time to look at it.)

Yet, a trucker here who said he tried very hard not to do it,would still scare
hell out of someone about once a week. He said he had mirrors all over the
place. A chrome ball in front of a truck will keep the trucker from running
over little kids directly below the front of the truck, but they don't help all
that much when trying to see an MG-B that is 30 feet behind the cab, alonside
the trailer. NO, the problem hasn't been solved.

DPH