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Originally Posted by JacobLeSann
To add, I imagine it was a key strategy because of safety standards limiting a lot of rearward streamlining. Just a hunch, seems like cars are required to have a tall and flat rear end for “visibility”. If you’re limited like that, the importance of the front section becomes more important. Similar to cycling, the focus shifts to frontal area because the rear can’t really be improved under UCI rules. I could be wrong, though.
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Rear visibility has certainly been an issue over the decades.
When General Motors did their Aero X concept car, the key personnel involved, mentioned GM's stringent rear vision standards which limited how streamlined the backlight area could be.
Soon, the Department of Transportation in the USA may allow 'camera' vehicles, with only synthetic, high-resolution, side and rear vision technology, like Volkswagen's XL1.