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Originally Posted by qqzj
I think the car might be too low for a different reason. Suppose you are in an SUV in a parking lot and there are cars on both sides. When you want to back off, you turn around and look through the back window, and check the side mirror etc. It might be hard for u to spot a BRZ coming. Then you back out of the parking spot and you are very surprised there was such a low and small car behind u.
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No, the problem is SUV drivers driving retarded land-boats and not looking where they're going. As usual. "Oh, I should look in a mirror before I back up?" "Those painted lines on the road mean things?" "What do you mean it's unsafe to be doing 85 in a 65 while swerving across the freeway without signaling on balding, three-year-old all-seasons?" For christ's sake the new ones are festooned with fucking cameras covering every angle and they still manage to hit things in parking lots. You can't cure stupid.
It's hard to spot most vehicles coming in parking lots when you have an oil-tanker-sized SUV to either side of you. That's why you inch out incredibly slowly when you can't see anything, and keep an eye on what's directly behind you as you do so. If I can back out of parking spaces like that without incident in a BRZ (a car where the b/c pillars block literally your entire view out the corners) then SUV drivers sure as shit could do the same thing in their cars, if they could be bothered to pay attention to what they were doing.
I'm picking on SUV drivers here because you brought them up. The truth is, most people driving most kinds of cars don't pay enough attention to what they're doing in parking lots. They pull out of spots really quickly and they cruise down the parking lot lanes way, way too fast. When you're cruising down the lot and there's a Suburban hanging out of its parking space, guess what? You should slow the fuck down because you have no idea what's on the far side of that SUV, and something very well could come flying out of that spot right into the front of your car as you pass by. Everyone should do things slowly where visibility is restricted.