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… and try crossing the street when to your left is a large SUV/truck—it's like peeking out of foxhole: you see nothing until all of a sudden 6000lbs of metal are inches from your face.

Fun fact: An M1 Abrams battle tank has better sight lines than a Chevy Silverado!

An analysis by Twitter user @FreckleEars: https://twitter.com/FreckleEars/status/1624137853872574475/p...

It's striking looking at the "commercial" vehicles—all of which have better sightlines-per-scale than their consumer relatives.

I'm going to guess that commercial use / insurers are very worried about liability in a way that Jimmy is not … so when he mows down a neighborhood toddler in his SuperDuty, it's a local "tragedy," and not seen as macro-level negligence.



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