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Passing Periscope
A periscope looking out on the driver's side of a car so you can see if it is safe to pass the car in front of you | |
It's really annoying if there's a slow car driving in front of you on a a road with only one lane in each direction, or even worse a tractor, those go really slow, as I found out when I was working at a mini golf course that was out in the country last summer. but often you can't see out to the side
enough to pass them, so I propose that either as a feature on new cars, or an accessory there should be a little periscope looking out further on the driver's side, it would be mounted just above the driver's side mirror, and at a glance you would be able to see past the vehicle in front of you, with mirrors at the right angles the periscope wouldn't have to project out any further than the mirror that is already there
I think this is the same idea...
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[xandram, Nov 13 2006]
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If you position the periscope to be set viewing from above and behind the car looking slightly down, you could pretend you're in a computer racing game.
Though, the car wouldn't miraculously bounce when hitting barriers at 200mph. |
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[Marked-for-Deletion] redundant, see link. |
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xandram, it's not quite the same idea. The one posted here is for a sideways-mounted periscope for seeing around obstacles in front of you. The one in the link is just for seeing further in general, in all directions. The one in the link would not work well for seeing around that tractor-trailer that's in front of you when you're trying to see if it's safe to pass. |
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I'm bunning both, because having both would be totally awesome. Also, this makes it so much easier for those guys you always see flirting with girls on the road through the windows. |
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"This is bomber 1 to Golden-eye *static* come in Golden-eye" |
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"This is Golden-eye to Bomber 1 *static* read you loud and clear, how copy?" |
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"loud and clear Golden-eye *static* closing on target vehicle" |
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"Golden-eye, this is Bomber 1. I have target in sight *static* target is a niner. Repeat, on a scale of one to ten, target is a niner." |
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"Bomber 1, this is Golden-eye *static* closing on target *static* don shades and look cool* |
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I've often wished for something like
this. Great idea! |
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