Considering the large percentage of SUV owners on the road, I consider
the negative reply posts to be just piqued SUV owners. Feeling self
conscious?
JR
JR North wrote:
> /rant
> The main beef I have with SUVs is the people who drive them have little
> or no experience with the shifted drivers perspective due to the
> elevated eye level. I have come within a short hair's width of being
> broadsided TWICE by Lincoln Navigators, who's drivers ran a stop sign on
> an intersecting side street. This is because they are used to looking UP
> at a stop sign in a car. The elevated eye level in an SUV puts the sign
> about level with the driver. So, it doesn't register. People who are
> used to driving trucks do not make this error. The higher driver
> position causes an error in judging the distance of the car in front,
> and sometimes not even seeing it because it is below the drivers
> straight ahead line of vision. I was waiting to turn left into a 7-11
> with my brake and T/S lights on in my '70 Datsun Roadster. I glanced in
> my RVM to see a Ford Expedition barreling right at me at 45mph. I
> stomped the gas and got out of her way just in the nick of time. I could
> see her face as I glanced- see was staring straight ahead- didn't even
> see me sitting there. If I hadn't moved, I would have been killed-
> literally run-over by that monster.
> Suvs rear-end cars for the above illustrated conditions. I have 3
> neighbors with SUVs, all 3 currently have front end damage.
> As I said, look at the number of cars with rear end collision damage
> well above bumper height.
> I have had SUV's repeatedly change lanes into me(without colliding),
> because they can't see smaller cars next to them.
> Am I discourteous to SUVs? You bet. I can't trust one behind me, and
> can't see around one in front of me. If one is next to me, I'm just
> waiting for it to swerve into my lane. If one is approaching on a side
> street, I expect it to run the stop sign. This is no way to drive with
> peace-of-mind.
> The main problem is the nitwits that drive them have no experience
> driving a large, high vehicle.
> I'm just counting the days till I get killed by one.....
> \rant
> JR
>
> Ad absurdum per aspera wrote:
>
>> Three times in the past week or so, I've noticed something I don't
>> recall seeing befo someone with a high-riding pickup or SUV who had
>> two to six inches of drop hitch -- installed upside down.
>>
>> Two of them had a trailer on, and in the worst case, a flatbed behind a
>> Ford Excursion, the upside-down apparatus combined with the tall
>> vehicle to leave it sitting at maybe a twenty-degree angle. I'm
>> surprised he didn't leave his trailer taillights on the speed bumps --
>> or his cargo on the road going up a steep hill.
>>
>> Just for completeness, I went to a local store and looked at the
>> catalogue from one of the big makers of trailering tools and toys.
>> Sure enough, it contained not only instructions but photographs showing
>> what things are supposed to look like when properly rigged. Somehow
>> people are spending money on an accessory that they probably need --
>> and using it exactly wrong.
>> Fishtailing soon down an Interstate near you...
>>
>> --Joe
>>
>
>
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