SUV drivers and door opening
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From: Trevor Wilson on 11 Aug 2010 00:32 Sylvia Else wrote: > What is it about SUV drivers that makes them think they don't need to > look into their mirrors before opening their doors? **It's not confined to SUV (whatever that means) drivers. If you mean 4WDs, then I am certainly happy to denigrate them and their drivers at every opporunity. However, I've noted such actions from drivers of most vehicles. > > I swear it's only a matter of time before one of them loses a door > when I'm too close to brake, and oncoming traffic prevents me from > steering away from them. **We all experience such stupidity. -- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au
From: Fraser Johnston on 11 Aug 2010 00:58 "Sylvia Else" <sylvia(a)not.here.invalid> wrote in message news:8cema4FnbqU1(a)mid.individual.net... > On 11/08/2010 11:04 AM, PHATRS wrote: >> On 11/08/10 10:54, Sylvia Else wrote: >>> On 11/08/2010 10:42 AM, PHATRS wrote: >>> >>>> Although I can't stand you using _that_ term. >>>> >>> >>> Um?? >>> >>> Sylvia. >>> >> >> Well, _that_ is what they're called on the other side of the pond. >> >> Here in Oz, I think we still call them 4WDs. Not sure what to call the >> 2WD versions... > > Therein lies the problem. Their main characteristic is that they're > needlessly large boxes on wheels. Their drive train can vary, and is not > necessarily accurately described as 4WD. Mind you, "Sports Utility Vehicle" > doesn't really capture what they are, but at least it doesn't involve > questionable mechanical assumptions. > > I wasn't aware that SUV wasn't a term in everyday usage in Australia. > Probably need to get out more. Like it or not if you say SUV in Australia people know what you are on about. Chalk another on up to American cultural imperialism. Fraser
From: George W Frost on 11 Aug 2010 01:18 "Trevor Wilson" <trevor(a)rageaudio.com.au> wrote in message news:8cenf7FspbU1(a)mid.individual.net... > Sylvia Else wrote: >> What is it about SUV drivers that makes them think they don't need to >> look into their mirrors before opening their doors? > > **It's not confined to SUV (whatever that means) drivers. If you mean > 4WDs, then I am certainly happy to denigrate them and their drivers at > every opporunity. However, I've noted such actions from drivers of most > vehicles. True, expecially the ones who stop at the local take-away for cigarettes or milk and the paper they pull in and before the car has stopped, the drivers door swings out fully and you have to swerve to avoid them of coarse, if you happen to hit them, they will scream blue murder that you should have looked and taken precautions for their stupidity >> >> I swear it's only a matter of time before one of them loses a door >> when I'm too close to brake, and oncoming traffic prevents me from >> steering away from them. > > **We all experience such stupidity. > > > -- > Trevor Wilson > www.rageaudio.com.au >
From: Kev on 11 Aug 2010 02:43 Trevor Wilson wrote: > Sylvia Else wrote: >> What is it about SUV drivers that makes them think they don't need to >> look into their mirrors before opening their doors? > > **It's not confined to SUV (whatever that means) drivers. If you mean 4WDs, > then I am certainly happy to denigrate them and their drivers at every > opporunity. However, I've noted such actions from drivers of most vehicles. > >> >> I swear it's only a matter of time before one of them loses a door >> when I'm too close to brake, and oncoming traffic prevents me from >> steering away from them. > > **We all experience such stupidity. > > There have been many doors removed from all sorts of vehicles when they were opened in front of trucks These morons are the same ones you see standing/walking beside their car(that is usually parked 2 feet from the gutter) to open the door and THEN look to see if any traffic is coming and realise they are about to be squashed between the truck and their car Then there are the small number of even more stupid types who look before they walk beside their car, see the truck coming and still walk out there Kev
From: D Walford on 11 Aug 2010 03:30
On 11/08/2010 2:12 PM, Sylvia Else wrote: > On 11/08/2010 11:04 AM, PHATRS wrote: >> On 11/08/10 10:54, Sylvia Else wrote: >>> On 11/08/2010 10:42 AM, PHATRS wrote: >>> >>>> Although I can't stand you using _that_ term. >>>> >>> >>> Um?? >>> >>> Sylvia. >>> >> >> Well, _that_ is what they're called on the other side of the pond. >> >> Here in Oz, I think we still call them 4WDs. Not sure what to call the >> 2WD versions... > > Therein lies the problem. Their main characteristic is that they're > needlessly large boxes on wheels. Nothing large about most of them, even Subaru call the Forester an "SUV" and I wouldn't describe ours as large. Their drive train can vary, and is not > necessarily accurately described as 4WD. Mind you, "Sports Utility > Vehicle" doesn't really capture what they are, but at least it doesn't > involve questionable mechanical assumptions. My objection to the term is it is used to describe anything from a small 4WD like a Grand Vitara up to vehicles like a huge 4WD Ford F series and anything in between. IMO its just laziness, instead of using a proper description a huge variety of vehicles are all labelled "SUV". Daryl |