Cars should have a periscope.
I can’t believe I am the first person to say this.
I do not drive often (or ever, really), but my wife does and she is a phenomenal driver. And even she, from time to time, is stuck at an intersection saying “gee, I guess I should go, but hard to know what with that overgrown hedge!”
There are overgrown hedges all over the place, and we only drive in Queens, New Jersey and the part of New York State near the Whitestone or Triboro bridges. I can just imagine what the overgrown hedge situation is like out there in the rest of the world. It must be chaos!
With today’s technology, cars should have a periscope.
I don’t mean a giant metal tube, I mean some kind of button you push and a tiny camera goes up and looks over the hedge, warning you that a truck is coming to kill you.
Look at this idiotic car:
This car, which is for morons who verbally abuse their wives, should at least have a button you can push and then zeeeeeeeep a tiny metal stick goes up and there’s a camera.
We have the most proletarian automobile on the road, a never-gets-tired Toyota Camry from 2017 (or so, I forget the exact year, we got it used in 2020) and all that is is a functioning motion machine. That Camry is there for one purpose: what, you don’t want to walk there? Okay, I’ll walk there for you.
Anyway, even our Camry out the back has a camera that turns a tiny, standard def, black & white screen into a reverse view screen. (Mr. Worf, hail them!)
Today’s cars should have periscopes. Either that or people need to trim their hedges.