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

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 :-(

Is it the cost of glass or the desire for a somehow faster appearance? I really wanted a RAV4 until they started getting bigger, more car-like, with less window area and only one inch of clearance better than the Corolla.

What I'd LIKE is a Honda S2000, but it's not all that practical :-(

Nobody knows what a Yaris is, but a friend and I rented one (all they had) for our big trip through Utah. Skiing too. It was stuffed to the gills, but was happy at 80 or 85 and behaved quite nicely (only one pan-scrape, which was my fault) on the road through Monument Valley. Did fine coming back through the blizzard near Ely NV, a thrilling first-time experience. Great mileage too.

No antenna on the white 2013 Corolla. If I forget where I parked it's a real bitch finding it since the key-beeper works for 50 feet or less. I was thinking of putting orange racing stripes on it until I found out how much even the cheesy plastic ones cost.

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.