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When I did my van training they walked around the van with a child sized stick to demonstrate the blind spot
It's 2023, we stuck a man on the moon 50+ years ago, we've got robots delivering packages, cars that park themselves, driverless cars. How is it that we just accept that huge multi-tonne machines have massive areas the driver can't see? Stick some cameras on them and put the monitors on the cabs. Something about motor vehicles means (society at large) just accepts that some people will get killed by them.
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PhilDAS
^ idk if it was an SUV, but a kid in our friends school was run over and killed by their dad. And the other month a nursery friend who was in an SUV almost ran over their 4yo.
When I did my van training they walked around the van with a child sized stick to demonstrate the blind spot - I know it's not realistic to mandate that prior to purchasing a car but for me personally the impact of having someone show me that I wouldn't be able to see a kid before I hit them without changing my position really hit home. The difference with a van is that the seats aren't like car seats and you move about in them and often don't have a seat belt.