Hitch inversion theory

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.