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Originally Posted by The Other Andy
but now we're going to mandate rear view cameras because some jack___ didn't look back when reversing?
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It's because of blind spots that seem to keep growing with every redesign. Look at the next brand new SUV you see on the road and take note of where the bottom of the back window is...it's about 4' off the ground. and take note of how small back windows are becoming on ALL cars. I saw a small hatchback the other day and it's back window was super high (in relation to the rest of the car) and bordering on microscopic size. Then think about rake, the back window on my sister's 2011 Camaro is rather large, but laid down at such a rake that useable viewing area is about the size of a dollar bill.
I can only assume that these changes are so that the car makers can use the back hatch for more structure and handle rear end collisions better, unfortunately this comes at the cost of reduced visibility...
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-Mike
2007 Ford Focus ZX5 - 91k - SGII, pending upper and lower grill bocks - auto trans
1987 Monte Carlo SS - 5.3/4L80E swap - 13.67 @ 106
2007 Ford Focus Estate - 230k - 33mpg - Retired 4/2018
1995 Saturn SL2 - 256K miles - 44mpg - Retired 9/2014
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