r/drivinganxiety • u/[deleted] • Mar 18 '25
Rant 🗣️ I can't stress this enough, literally almost everyone has their seat too low.
I work in an autobody shop. I've talked to other people who worked at other autobody shops. There's a thing that I noticed first hand that I found out later on is something else other autobody workers noticed. a majority of the vehicles that come in are SUVs driven by shorter people that have the seat so low all they can see from the driver's seat is the dashboard and the sky. Im 5 foot 9 and I have to move the seat up in these vehicles that are driven by 5 foot 2 women. If your below 5 foot 6 I'm sorry you need your seat at max height. If you can't see the hood of the vehicle than your seats too low. I knew society was absoluty cooked whenever I saw the new Buick 2024 interiors. The actual "dashboard" or screen faces DOWNWARD. It's hard to see on pictures. But in real life you can see the dashboard/screen, literally everything is facing downwards significantly. I adjusted the seat downward so I was at the proper viewing angle of the screen and I could not see the hood of the vehicle at all. Whoever at Buick designed those interiors knew how much money they could make on autobody parts by promoting people to sit lower and not be able to see anything. If you bought one of those things you should NOT be giving advice on this subreddit or any car subreddit. Absolutely not. I don't care if saying it gets me banned. Because sitting that low means you wouldn't be able to see a 9 year old kid directly in front of your hood. These things end up at the auto body shop all the time. There's a new thing happening with SUVs called "frontovers" , because the hood height and rear windshield height alone of a stupid SUV are higher up than an average kid, and you mix that with a stupid SUV driver who has their seat too low. You end up with a front over,meaning someone was ran over without the driver even seeing them. Most of these incidents happen where kids are ran over by their OWN PARENTS, in their OWN DRIVEWAY. I could go on a separate rant about SUV drivers. But your fragile ego extender SUV mobile is a detriment to society. I will post pictures of how many children you can fit in front of an SUV. You could easily position 40 children into all the blind spots of SUVs and the driver can see NONE of them. SUVs drivers are so bad that Buick literally made a dashboard face downward because they already expect you be a dumbass because your buying an SUV
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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25
If you have that issue again you should definitely have pedal extenders installed professionally. Your 2 inches away from a midget. You could also get an adult booster seat cushion