Where is the blind spot & how do you check it when crossing a bike lane?

I should too, the rear-seat but they're mounted on some sheet steel that goes down into the seat. I'm willing to saw it off except that a new owner may not be able to pass inspection or get it licensed. Maryland only inspects cars once, when you first buy it, after that it can fall apart unless a cop notices and complains.

No one ever sits in the back seat so it's not protecting anyone, and when the top is down, the headrests really hurt the view.

Since I stopped sleeping on my belly, my neck has lots its ability to turn 90^. I can go maybe 60^ and them move my eyes almost the rest of the way. I really noticed this on my foreign vacations where the streets were narrower and the buildings closer to the corner, and I had trouble turning my head to see who was coming. In the US it's not really a problem, except I don't like being handicapped.

Would stretching exercises put my neck back to normal?

In practice probably, but I don't think there has to be.

I'm afraid I'll hit something like another car backing in.

I back out a little at a time to give the other crackpot drivers time to see me.

Thanks. Good to know. AFAIC it's good that some are like that.

I'm sure that's it, but I don't care what they want. It doesn't distract me anyhow. Maybe it was a setting for rental cars and the same car non-rental wouldn't do that, buit they don't sell Citroens in the US so I can't go check.

It's one more thing I'll have to remember to check when buying a car.

If they only turned the volume down, that would be good enough.

Thanks Good to know. That wouldn't be bad.

Odd. I've slept on my side or back all my life and my neck turns 90 degrees.

Probably. Talk to your doctor about it.

But then people move up behind you and it takes a while to sort out the precedence. Apparently the backup lights are no longer meaningful :-(

Maybe I have the wrong cause. I stopped sleeping on my belly 10 or 20 years ago and only objectively noticed that I can't turn my head during my spring 2022 trip.

OKay.

Some cars, (Buick, I think?), have a parking assist feature that says, in commercials anyway, that the car can parallel park all by itself, with your hands off the wheel. I've never had such a vehicle.

I recently saw an announcement from Kia/Hyundai that they've developed a parking feature where all 4 wheels turn 90 degrees, allowing the vehicle to move sideways into a parallel parking spot. The demo was pretty cool.

My 2017 Tacoma doesn't do anything to the audio level when I back up, but my

That's good too. I went through the radio's options**, and it didnt' have anything about that, but they could have it hidden for rental cars. I also found and dl'd the 500 page owners manual and I think I looked in it. (It's on this laptop maybe I'll look again, but the previous car doesn't matter, as long as the next car works like I want.)

I can tell from being on the computer... When I'm concentrating, I don't hear the radio, so it won't be a problem backing up, any more than it is now.

That's the problem with huge A/B/C pillars in modern vehicles. They say that it's for roll-over safety, but I'd rather be able to see behind me clearly.

Modern SUV's are dangerous with their limited view. I read a study where 8 children can sit in a row from the front bumper forward of a Chevy Suburban until the driver can finally see the top of the last one's head. That's a very limited range of view due to being jacked up so high with a large hood. Smaller, lower cars are safer than SUV's and trucks.

I believe you; I will have to take a look at it.

That didn't take me long. With others, their mileage may vary. When your first job is in Pittsburgh, and you have to travel around town throughout the day, you have to learn to parallel park in tight spaces on busy streets very quickly while traffic waits.

They call it "the maneuverability test". Seems kinda watered-down, to me.