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The bad thing about Tadpoles is the same thing wrong with motorcycles and small cars.
Some old lady or old man comes along in their huge old American car and says to themselves - hey that little fella isn't using their whole lane up, I'm going to help myself to some of it.
This has seriously happened to me on my motorcycle many years ago, and more than once in my old Porsche 911.
I've seen it happen to other small vehicles as well.
People are crazy.
And they always have been.
I still remember the car that took up two lanes because the pick-up truck in front of him had a ladder sticking eight feet out of it with a red rag on it.
He just had to fill up that wasted space on the side of the ladder.
Totally insane as he wasn't in either lane, he was in both.
I once had a guy try to pass me on the inside shoulder of the cloverleaf on-ramp to the freeway. All that wasted space I wasn't using had to be filled up by his car. And he would not slow down, almost clipped my rear corner before going on to the dirt/lawn.
Unless we can fix crazy human instincts that have no place in the modern world we will have to drive vehicles that fill up all four corners or there is going to be trouble.
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