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One of my colleagues almost got hit recently, apparently he was crossing a pedestrian crossing, a woman was speeding up. He just had time to jump to the side! The woman was accompanied by a young woman (probably the one who alerted the driver) , they stopped and asked him "are you okay?!" after the driver told him she was sorry, that she hadn't seen him -_-...
He told me that he had the reflex to jump, what would have happened with a child?
The interesting side of this story is that my colleague owns an (fucking) SUV...
SUVs are the most dangerous vehicles.
I've had cars hit several times by SUVs reversing (in fairness, most were well before backup cameras became standard). "I didn't see you." Yeah, no shit.
The most recent one was in broad daylight, they backed into my red car. How do you miss a red car in daylight? I also noted that the car is as tall as the average 10 year old, so if my car is in danger, then so are children.
Logical conclusion: SUVs are unsafe to back up, so they shouldn't have reverse.
I said this at lunch one day to a group of friends, and one of the SUV-driving friends got offended. A few months later her SUV was in the shop for repairs after she ...backed into some trash cans she couldn't see. And hers was one of the smaller ones, like a RAV4 or something.