What happened to observation?
Discussion
Over the past week I have witnessed:
-A car reversing from a space without looking and hitting a stationary car
-A car reversing from a space and nearly hitting 2 passers by
-One car lose track of the road at night then hitting another car which then buried itself in a ditch
-A woman swerving into our lane to go round a car pulling into a drive way, Then giving us the fingers as my Dad slammed on the anchors and the horn
So whatever happened to basic observation? Did it leave with common sense?
-A car reversing from a space without looking and hitting a stationary car
-A car reversing from a space and nearly hitting 2 passers by
-One car lose track of the road at night then hitting another car which then buried itself in a ditch
-A woman swerving into our lane to go round a car pulling into a drive way, Then giving us the fingers as my Dad slammed on the anchors and the horn
So whatever happened to basic observation? Did it leave with common sense?
Thicko C-Posts on most modern rearranged tinware, also known as new cars, means poor or very restricted rear visibility ~ plus, many drivers of modern gizmo laden cars are convinced those same gizmos will do the driving for them. Those C-Pillars along with the trend of does my R-se look big in this rear end treatment does not exactly aid rearward visibility... Add that to the less caring drivers which appear on the increase and you have a recipe for ....
There's a people carrier with very steeply raked A-Pillars which almost reach the front of the car ... forget which as most modern tinware is not memorable ~ and when I first drove one up to a busy T-junction, I was horrified by the hugely restricted side vision because of those steeply raked A-Pillars. They can easily mask an approaching cyclist on the main road ~ Correction. They can easily mask another vehicle. As I soon discovered during that first drive. Since that drive about ten years ago, I've seen at least two incidents of these same vehicles attempting to enter from a side road involved in collisions.
There again all this may be pure coincidence.
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There's a people carrier with very steeply raked A-Pillars which almost reach the front of the car ... forget which as most modern tinware is not memorable ~ and when I first drove one up to a busy T-junction, I was horrified by the hugely restricted side vision because of those steeply raked A-Pillars. They can easily mask an approaching cyclist on the main road ~ Correction. They can easily mask another vehicle. As I soon discovered during that first drive. Since that drive about ten years ago, I've seen at least two incidents of these same vehicles attempting to enter from a side road involved in collisions.
There again all this may be pure coincidence.
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MGJohn said:
Thicko C-Posts on most modern rearranged tinware, also known as new cars, means poor or very restricted rear visibility ~ plus, many drivers of modern gizmo laden cars are convinced those same gizmos will do the driving for them. Those C-Pillars along with the trend of does my R-se look big in this rear end treatment does not exactly aid rearward visibility... Add that to the less caring drivers which appear on the increase and you have a recipe for ....
There's a people carrier with very steeply raked A-Pillars which almost reach the front of the car ... forget which as most modern tinware is not memorable ~ and when I first drove one up to a busy T-junction, I was horrified by the hugely restricted side vision because of those steeply raked A-Pillars. They can easily mask an approaching cyclist on the main road ~ Correction. They can easily mask another vehicle. As I soon discovered during that first drive. Since that drive about ten years ago, I've seen at least two incidents of these same vehicles attempting to enter from a side road involved in collisions.
There again all this may be pure coincidence.
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I suspect it is coincidence (even though you're right about pillars getting fatter etc). Most people are just talentless, generally couldn't give a fThere's a people carrier with very steeply raked A-Pillars which almost reach the front of the car ... forget which as most modern tinware is not memorable ~ and when I first drove one up to a busy T-junction, I was horrified by the hugely restricted side vision because of those steeply raked A-Pillars. They can easily mask an approaching cyclist on the main road ~ Correction. They can easily mask another vehicle. As I soon discovered during that first drive. Since that drive about ten years ago, I've seen at least two incidents of these same vehicles attempting to enter from a side road involved in collisions.
There again all this may be pure coincidence.
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k about anyone else and incapable of seeing and evaluating consequences, even one single step ahead. The sheer volume of absolutely rank awful driving I see every single week has me convinced on this.I normally get by on the roads without any problems but I had two in one morning today. Firstly the old dear in front of me in a traffic queue rolling backwards towards me and ending up perilously close, first time in months I've actually used the horn (only to find out it's a rubbish sound too). Secondly driving into the supermarket I nearly had a head-on with some tit trying to leave through the Entrance Only ramp. I think my hand gestures conveyed that he should remove his vehicle from the area 
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Remember, they walk (and drive) among us.
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