Cars are ridiculously large in America. I finally bought a small SUV so I could see better, but today I parked between two full-sized SUVs and still couldn’t see left or right when I backed out. Fortunately my car has good cameras and radar for safety.
I suppose these might do if you only want to cut one down.
Otherwise, these all look pre-cut. Is there a place where you can cut your own – to your own desired size and shape? And to make it unique – not just a cookie cutter shape?
Keep your vehicle clean and you won’t need one of those smelly things hanging from your mirror partially blocking your vision and possibly causing an accident.
In 1906, the Royal Navy launched the HMS Dreadnaught. It was the world’s first “modern” battleship. It made all other battleships obsolete.
Now the entire world was exactly one modern battleship short of the Royal Navy and it kicked off an arms race among the nations to build bigger and bigger battleships culminating with ships such as the Yamato which probably used more steel than the Empire State building.
I see a similar arms race going on with SUVs. They brag about crash safety ratings. Due to sheer mass, your children will be safe in a crash. They won’t even find the bodies of the children in the car you hit. They will scrape it off with a spatula like a bug on the windscreen.
My sister-in-law was broadsided by one of these behemoths. Being rammed by something with the mass of a WW II aircraft carrier totaled her car. She asked me for advice on a safer car. I told her to buy an M1-A1 tank. I’m beginning to think that putting reactive armor on vehicles might be a good thing.
In addition to being heavily armored, SUVs have an offensive weapon at their disposal: insanely bright headlights mounted at eye level to other drivers. Of course these let you see further and makes you safer while blinding oncoming drivers. Some models even turn the headlights into a turn to make sure that the full intensity is in the eyes of drivers in the oncoming lane.
Airliners fly at about 600 miles per hour. They don’t seem to be going that fast when you are at 30,000 feet. Speed seems slower, the further you are from a point of reference. The head of a driver of an SUV is a story or two above the pavement, therefore it seems to them that they are going slower than they actually are. So while the rest of us have a good feel for what 60 mph is, they have that same sensation at 90 mph.
SUVs are very safe cars to drive; they are a hazard to the rest of us.
Ratkin Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Cars are ridiculously large in America. I finally bought a small SUV so I could see better, but today I parked between two full-sized SUVs and still couldn’t see left or right when I backed out. Fortunately my car has good cameras and radar for safety.
Doug K almost 2 years ago
I suppose these might do if you only want to cut one down.
Otherwise, these all look pre-cut. Is there a place where you can cut your own – to your own desired size and shape? And to make it unique – not just a cookie cutter shape?
Gameguy49 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Keep your vehicle clean and you won’t need one of those smelly things hanging from your mirror partially blocking your vision and possibly causing an accident.
dflak almost 2 years ago
In 1906, the Royal Navy launched the HMS Dreadnaught. It was the world’s first “modern” battleship. It made all other battleships obsolete.
Now the entire world was exactly one modern battleship short of the Royal Navy and it kicked off an arms race among the nations to build bigger and bigger battleships culminating with ships such as the Yamato which probably used more steel than the Empire State building.
I see a similar arms race going on with SUVs. They brag about crash safety ratings. Due to sheer mass, your children will be safe in a crash. They won’t even find the bodies of the children in the car you hit. They will scrape it off with a spatula like a bug on the windscreen.
My sister-in-law was broadsided by one of these behemoths. Being rammed by something with the mass of a WW II aircraft carrier totaled her car. She asked me for advice on a safer car. I told her to buy an M1-A1 tank. I’m beginning to think that putting reactive armor on vehicles might be a good thing.
In addition to being heavily armored, SUVs have an offensive weapon at their disposal: insanely bright headlights mounted at eye level to other drivers. Of course these let you see further and makes you safer while blinding oncoming drivers. Some models even turn the headlights into a turn to make sure that the full intensity is in the eyes of drivers in the oncoming lane.
Airliners fly at about 600 miles per hour. They don’t seem to be going that fast when you are at 30,000 feet. Speed seems slower, the further you are from a point of reference. The head of a driver of an SUV is a story or two above the pavement, therefore it seems to them that they are going slower than they actually are. So while the rest of us have a good feel for what 60 mph is, they have that same sensation at 90 mph.
SUVs are very safe cars to drive; they are a hazard to the rest of us.
Zebrastripes almost 2 years ago
Well,this stinks!
Cozmik Cowboy almost 2 years ago
Air “freshener”? Their chemical stench is even worse than Febreeze™.
KEA almost 2 years ago
Americans have always liked large cars, but it’s gotten ridiculous lately. (I consider any vehicle which requires truck tires a TRUCK btw)