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JR North wrote:
> 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. That, sir, is cobblers. A *competent* driver of *any* road-legal vehicle will see the stop sign ahead of him *long* before its exact height becomes relevant (unless, of course, the highway authority has allowed it to be obscured by other clutter - but that's quite another matter). An *incompetent* driver may very well miss the sign, whether he is driving a Lincoln Navigator or an E-Type Jag. There may, of course, be a *statistical correlation* between choice of vehicle and driving competence, but competence is *far and away* the more significant factor in road safety. |
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