You would have to come up with a very mental gymnast type of theory for this to make it an everyday reality, all I see is a driver seeing the road ahead, driving, a child runs into the road, the parent (S) responsible for the child did not look after the child’s safety. Your reaction was too slow. What else is there to say?
Lemme try - you drive one of these things up to a streetlight, with a crosswalk. Busy downtown street, large number of pedestrians on the sidewalks. It’s a red light, so you stop and wait for your turn. Plenty of pedestrians make use of the crosswalk.
Now the light turns green. How can you be certain everyone’s cleared the crosswalk, and there’s nobody in front of you? After all, you can’t see the ground for several yards in front of your truck! Can you be certain nobody slipped and fell? No kids got away from their parents? Nobody in a wheelchair is struggling with a pothole? You might be pretty sure you’ve accounted for everyone, but you’re literally risking someone else’s life on this “pretty sure” every time you go through one of these lights!
It’s usually driveways and right on reds.
You pull up to the light on your Brodozer Yosemite edition, with the big knobbly tires, factory lift kit, and the (man)hood extension. It’s a red light and you want to make a right, because every second you spend behind the wheel of your 110k overgrown minivan alternative, not driving up the ass of the Kia Pimento in front of you fills you with murderous rage. You look right, and there are no visible people, look left, and there is a 1 second gap in trafficking, a perfect amount of space for your extended crew-cab single occupant truck to jam in. You floor it and crank the wheel around 4 times to full lock. You don’t even feel it as all 9500lbs of your truck crushes the life out of 2 teens who waited for the pedestrian symbol before walking their bikes across the road. You didn’t see them because looking from the driver’s seat, over the 6ft long and 6ft high hood puts your minimum view distance of 2 kids at 22ft away. Looks like you’re gonna be late to pick up your order of Crocs and socks from JCP at the mall.
You would have to come up with a very mental gymnast type of theory for this to make it an everyday reality, all I see is a driver seeing the road ahead, driving, a child runs into the road, the parent (S) responsible for the child did not look after the child’s safety. Your reaction was too slow. What else is there to say?
Lemme try - you drive one of these things up to a streetlight, with a crosswalk. Busy downtown street, large number of pedestrians on the sidewalks. It’s a red light, so you stop and wait for your turn. Plenty of pedestrians make use of the crosswalk.
Now the light turns green. How can you be certain everyone’s cleared the crosswalk, and there’s nobody in front of you? After all, you can’t see the ground for several yards in front of your truck! Can you be certain nobody slipped and fell? No kids got away from their parents? Nobody in a wheelchair is struggling with a pothole? You might be pretty sure you’ve accounted for everyone, but you’re literally risking someone else’s life on this “pretty sure” every time you go through one of these lights!
It’s usually driveways and right on reds. You pull up to the light on your Brodozer Yosemite edition, with the big knobbly tires, factory lift kit, and the (man)hood extension. It’s a red light and you want to make a right, because every second you spend behind the wheel of your 110k overgrown minivan alternative, not driving up the ass of the Kia Pimento in front of you fills you with murderous rage. You look right, and there are no visible people, look left, and there is a 1 second gap in trafficking, a perfect amount of space for your extended crew-cab single occupant truck to jam in. You floor it and crank the wheel around 4 times to full lock. You don’t even feel it as all 9500lbs of your truck crushes the life out of 2 teens who waited for the pedestrian symbol before walking their bikes across the road. You didn’t see them because looking from the driver’s seat, over the 6ft long and 6ft high hood puts your minimum view distance of 2 kids at 22ft away. Looks like you’re gonna be late to pick up your order of Crocs and socks from JCP at the mall.
What a weird hill to die on.
What hill?
You have given no counter argument.