Anyone else consider new body styling of pickups dangerous?

Driving open roads they are okay, but otherwise They are worse than driving a tractor trailer, and I drove one of those for many years, when it comes to front visibility.

The door post/pillar limit your view going around curves.
Several times had close calls going around 15-2mph curves cause couldn’t see car drifting into my lane.
Going over hills… hoods are too high, seats too low to be able to see properly.
Many times a week I’ll have my head against the roof trying to see if anyone coming up other side, or leaning over against the window to see edge of road because door post blacks it.

example today. https://youtube.com/shorts/cdEb8S706lg?si=wZAAZmOaxyykNrBg


Don’t have such an issue with pre-2007 vehicles.

What say ya’ll?

 

Phone had better view than me because it was closer to windshield, and higher than my head.

 

I feel that way in a 250/2500 or bigger. But my 2017 has a pretty short hood I think compared to other brands.

All about safety though. Big/bulky keeps the meat sacks inside safe...er...

 

Its a catch 22.
Thin pillars offer more visibility but that slimness in older vehicles is because they generally don't contain the airbag that could save your life.

 

To me just lot less visibility.
I quit driving a semi cause burnt out, and now they almost like driving one again.
One of guys I work with was driving 2019 GMC 1500 company truck. Less than half mile from the office, so wasn’t going very fast yet, a 120lb deer jumped out in front of truck. All the air bags deployed.
Truck was totaled.
Granted he wasn’t hurt too bad, but I seen some of the older trucks get less damage when they broadsided a cow in the road.

 

I like what chevy did with their Silverado.



Solves a lot of potential visibility issues going over rolling hills.

 

That's funny.
It sure would.
If they did that they would be a copy of the ford econoline truck. And they had good fuel mileage for the time.
My grandpa had a 1966 and I liked it. He sold it to someone who wanted to take it to cali for refurbishment.
https://www.blueovaltrucks.com/ford_articles/ford-econoline-truck-history-specs-1961-1967/

 

Vehicles are sacrificial in design. Everything that deforms or breaks dissipated energy that could have been transmitted to the occupant. Fewer cars survive accidents as a result, but way more people survive than used to.

 

Don’t get a FJ Cruiser if you want visibility. It’s like driving a cave around.

 

Drive Camaro and you'll think the visibility of the FJ is great!

 

True.

 

Drive a sports car and then switch back to a truck. You’ll never complain again about the view.

 

To me It's not so much the thickness as placement, and angle.

If anyone has ever drove a semi, modern vehicles are like driving a peterbilt classic, and limited visibility, whereas a freight liner cascadia, or ken worth T600 provides, and lot of visibility due to sloped hood design. Plus there is the turning radius. A Classic Pete needs 40 acres.....

 

I just realized I haven't sat in a car in almost 20 years. I don't know what the are like so I may have to sit in one to see. Would definitely seem to me.

 

Spoiler

True

 

I’ve got an 85 blazer and my 18 tundra and honestly the tundra is easier to see out of than the blazer. The mirrors are better, the fenders slope out of the way instead of just a giant flat hood, the front door windows are bigger. They are both about the same looking behind.

 

Good example here on part of what I’m referring too.
The closest you can see in front of truck on a slight upward slope is 24 feet.
Half that distance in front of the truck is a tin horn.
If the ground is sloping down visibility in front increases profoundly.
Parked in the same spot in the Tundra, or my 01 gmc dually I’d be able to see the tinhorn.

Can’t tell number of times I’ve made a turn in the ‘18, and due to slope of road couldn’t see there was a hole or ruts right in front of me.