How do short people see backwards-out car window?

[udaman]

So I was thinking...for more pussy, I could be a gigilo (oh, no SC already did that thread on SR )

Well jtr put up on hella odd thread, so I might as well too .

Thread title has little to do with the text of the OP you say?

It sort of does though, but I don't want to make too long of a post to explain myself...somethin about limited internet attention span disorder .

I've been trying to teach my mother how to drive better and accomplish tasks that were never required of her (or me for that matter) to pass the drive test exam by the state DMV (thank God Arnie signed the most delayed budget in state history yesterday, something like 82 days overdue...was a compromise, but at least all those grotesquely overpaid $14+/hr temporary DMV employee's are back on the job, doing what they does best...mostly nothing, being the most aloft, incompetent, uninformed people in any job I know of...Burger King employee's are sharper, lol).

So the new requirement of all drivers (my mother's vision is now too poor to pass the vision test, so there's a mandated driving test they torture senior drivers into passsing...that when most of the 18-50yr old drivers are *far* worst that her limited driving skills), is that you have to back up a car 3 car lengths along a curb, and stay within 3 feet of the curb without hitting the curb. Only problem, like that fuggly Chevy Volt in Clocker's thread, virtually all new cars since about 1990 have been built to more aerodynamic body shapes, with resultant much higher rear window 'look over' sills. Such that a person less than 5ft tall, my mother is 5'2" or 5'1" (same height as say Eva Longoria, lots of other Hispanic, Asian, Caucasian women...some men too), there's no way, even with seat adjusted to it's highest level, with 4" additional height soft seat cushion, that anyone less than 5'2" can see over the back window enough to actually see what's behind them. It's a *required* rule of the DMV test, that you must turn over you shoulder and look back through the rear window, to drive your car in reverse for 3 car lengths. This is fairly difficult when you are not high enough in the seat to be able to seat the curb, even at 10 car lengths behind the car.

So how to short people even pass this part of the stupid DMV mandated drive test???

Which leads me to point #2...err, I think there's a point (Merc get some aspirin or Tylenol )...

last night I had dinner here:

http://www.shibucho-la.com/

The cute little waitress in the picture, she's been working there at that restaurant part-time for over a year. She's less than 5ft tall, tiny little thin thing (picture is not a very good one, she looks better in person). How did she pass the drive test to get a CA DL?

So, it was slow in the restaurant last night, not good sign or the times. So we were talking to her about her "real" job . She's an 'aspiring' actress.

She told us that she's got a part in the new internet 'movie' series thingy:

http://www.thescarycity.com/

Starts in a few days, better later, than never. All she could tell us, (doesn't really know that much) that she's in appt#24 or was it 29?

I never saw any of the 'lonelygirl15' series, don't know what that was about...sounds lame. But I'll be tempted to watch the new series.

http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/6648/

http://news.tubefilter.tv/2008/08/0...up-52m-14kmin-prepares-for-sept-15th-debut-2/

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/internet-series-scary-city-goes/story.aspx?guid=%7B729FAF69-C129-4001-B85A-546EF26161C0%7D&dist=hppr


Supposedly there was going to be youtube submissions/casting call on the internet, but the waitress here in real life...who looks kind of babyfaced and can play a child, in reality is 28, I think she auditioned in person for the role (which I suppose must be that of Naomi)

Not sure what I think of this type of media marketing, but I know Wayne Wong has a internet premiere of his movie coming up soon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Wang

'Princess of Nebraska' goes YouTube route
Online release part of distrib'n plan for two Wayne Wang pics
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr...logy/news/e3ia6592177cf3e47efd249788d89e40d26

sign of the times?

and btw: I tried to read up on what the scary city actually is about, but was easily as confused as my own post here...didn't make much sense to me, lol.

Can someone figure it out ???

Edit is working very slowly right now, Handy still on the same ISP/server?

 

[ddrueding]

If you can't see out the back window well enough to back up the car, you shouldn't have a license. I'm not saying it is the person's fault for being short, you could blame the car manufacturers if you like, but I don't care. If you can't see out the back window well enough to back up the car, you shouldn't have a license.

 

[MaxBurn]

That's weird, you have to look behind you? I don't understand that but I can think of many situations where you would have to do the same thing using only mirrors. I had to do something simmilar in hummer school in the service only we had to back 100 feet or so and keep the tire on a line. They specifically chose a hummer rigged for water fording which has an exhaust stack right in the way of the mirrors direct rearward view, so this was one test where you were supposed to not use the mirrors (there were others that tested mirror use). I did it with the mirrors anyway using the 1/2 inch of space between the exhaust and the body of the truck to make the point, but they made me do it again looking behind. Supposedly the point is to see if you can understand all of the left right relationships it takes to back the car and steer it.

As far as your mom goes you have the ability to choose your playing field, so try and borrow a car? Rent something? Get a pillow to raise her up?

I would think I would worry about people who can't use their mirrors more. It's going to happen one day.