The end of the manual transmission is near?

Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by AuryGlenz on Thursday August 25, 2022 @02:23AM (#32590265)

I almost got t-bones a few weeks ago due to my pillars. It was a rural intersection that’s at an angle and I looked both ways. I didn’t notice the road was at an angle where an approaching car would be hidden. I pulled out, and if I had been .2 seconds faster I might’ve been dead. A van zoomed by going 60 and I braked all of a few inches from getting hit.

Stupid of me, of course. But it’s easy to miss a bad combination of factors.

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Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by thinkling on Thursday August 25, 2022 @10:41AM (#32594285)

There's a website out there somewhere about the issue of not seeing cross traffic because it's approaching the intersection at just the right speed to stay hidden behind the A pillar of your car. Ah, it looks like it involved cyclists [1].

OTOH there's also a fairly simply fix invented by an 8th grader... [2]

[1] https://www.core77.com/posts/71732/

[2] https://www.core77.com/posts/91054/

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