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<p>[QUOTE="Rockin&Rollin, post: 4655486, member: 61982"]I know one thing for sure ... on two lane roads with hills and curves its often not easy to get back far enough behind a truck to see around it and then get up enough speed to pass it in a legal passing zone before the next hill/curve. These screens would help immensely with things like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whatever, lets remember how-far-how-fast things are moving in todays Computer Age = this type or technology could easily cost a few hundred bucks per truck making it well-worth the expense considering we all pay higher private insurance premiums and we pay taxes that cover everybody on Medicare/Medicaid/VA Healthcare and we have accidents "killing or injuring up to 50 million people throughout the world each year."</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps this technology will prove viable, perhaps not, but lets remember people sitting on horses used to laugh at people passing them in newfangled automobiles saying the automobile could never replace the horse while others were sitting on steamships crossing the Atlantic looking at newfangled aeroplanes flying over claiming they could never replace steamships. Time will tell as always ...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Rockin&Rollin, post: 4655486, member: 61982"]I know one thing for sure ... on two lane roads with hills and curves its often not easy to get back far enough behind a truck to see around it and then get up enough speed to pass it in a legal passing zone before the next hill/curve. These screens would help immensely with things like that. Whatever, lets remember how-far-how-fast things are moving in todays Computer Age = this type or technology could easily cost a few hundred bucks per truck making it well-worth the expense considering we all pay higher private insurance premiums and we pay taxes that cover everybody on Medicare/Medicaid/VA Healthcare and we have accidents "killing or injuring up to 50 million people throughout the world each year." Perhaps this technology will prove viable, perhaps not, but lets remember people sitting on horses used to laugh at people passing them in newfangled automobiles saying the automobile could never replace the horse while others were sitting on steamships crossing the Atlantic looking at newfangled aeroplanes flying over claiming they could never replace steamships. Time will tell as always ...[/QUOTE]
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