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Blind spots increase with truck height.

google has many studies and articles on the dangers of this but a link to get you started

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/the-hidden-danger...

Most of the newer trucks have front facing cameras because of that. I have a "Mid Size" truck which sits fairly high. Since it doesn't have front cameras, I often back into parking spots so I can make use of my rear view camera to assist.

Seems kind of crazy, adding a front camera (which the driver might not even look at) rather than just scaling down the front so they can see pedestrians with their eyes.

Are the operators expected to drive by looking at cameras, or by looking out of their windows?

thank goodness we have these tiny technological devices called cameras, that can be installed in the front and rear of these mean bad trucks, so that the driver can see inside the blind spots.

now those poor babies, children and vertically challenged adults will be safe as safe can be... yipeee

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