The obvious solution is to raise the ground clearance even further! But seriously, what else would one expect from taking trucks, customarily driven by people engaged in heavy work and painfully aware of their awkwardness, and marketing them to checked-out suburban consumers? The larger the vehicle, the more you need to inspect around it before moving - like when renting a moving truck, it's good to have a friend that can pop out and spot for you. People that take hopping in their vehicle and zooming off for granted are not going to do this work every time. Although of all the bad results from the ignorant zeitgeist of the early oughts, this is pretty minor.

I had thought this article was going to be about A pillars. With modern ones I feel like there is an insufferable blind spot right in the arc of my turn. I know about increasing fuel economy and crash standards, but it feels like there has got to be another way.