For the first time in Europe, registrations for EVs overtook diesel

Re:For the first time in Europe, registrations for EVs overt... by roel_v on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:14AM (#25220670)

Only to a degree I think - when you're sitting in a lower car, you can't view over other cars anyway. I guess you can see through other cars' windows, which is harder when the other cars are higher, like for me when I'm between several trucks. I don't recall that as being a 'problem' as such from when I drove a lower car. Maybe other people experience it differently.

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Re:For the first time in Europe, registrations for EVs overt... by maccard on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:47AM (#25220960)

Any junction where there's a lane on your outside, a person in a "normal" sized car is unable to see through into the junction.

For some reason, all of the traffic lights installed in my city now don't have a set of lights at the far side of the junction visible, so there is a fairly large window where you can be stuck with no visibility of the traffic lights in 2 lanes of traffic if you might have a filter light.

There's also rear view mirrors (big vehicle takes up more of my window, so I can't see if there's a bike coming)

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Re:For the first time in Europe, registrations for EVs overt... by holstvoogd on Thursday November 26, 2020 @12:12PM (#25221791)

Main issue I always had with SUVs is the lights. They all have way to bright xenon lights. When you drive a sports car (I drove a fiat coupe & a mx-5/Miata) in the dark you cannot see anything when a SUV is behind you.

Not to speak of opposing(?) traffic on smaller roads. I almost died several times ;)

Very happy to no longer have a car.

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