Comment Re:Not new (Score 1) 75
One of the easiest vehicles to parallel park that I ever drove was an 84-passenger ThomasBuilt. Great mirrors, great visibility, good turning radius (for a bus). I do generally fine with my current vehicles, but they're mostly older. The newest is a 2014 Honda Pilot, and the hood is high enough it took me a hot minute to get used to the degraded visibility. By contrast, my '94 Suburban is pretty easy to see all around, and my '78 K10 is a dream (a non-moving dream at the moment, but hey, visibility is great!).
The whole fad of making everything taller and more square and agressive-looking to sell to the a-holes who want to intimidate everyone else on the road makes me wish for progressive licenses not allowing over a certain curb weight/size/hp vehicle until much more stringent training/testing has been completed.
Initial license should limit someone to a small car with reasonably low HP (something akin to a civic, accord, etc.). Want a bigger/faster/heavier car? great... do ALL the training and testing, and one single road rage / reckless / tailgating / aggressive driving incident, and you're back to square one for a LONG time.... 10 years ought to be enough, probably. Second incident? License revoked, permanently.
Half our US society is creaming themselves over gun control, when asshole drivers kill far more people through inattention, aggression, and impairment. Time to get some far stricter policies around who can drive on our roadways, IMO.