Roof Racks, Bikes, Etc.: Barriers to Visibility?
Bikes, roof racks and various other items are often billed as matters of convenience — don’t have room inside your vehicle for bulky travel items? Put them on a roof rack or strap them onto the back of your vehicle. In other instances, it’s a matter of contracting businesses hauling all of their tools around without using a properly-sized vehicle. Either way, these types of vehicle add-ons can be dangerous. From time to time, you might see some comic lampooning of people using roof racks improperly, for example, transporting pets in a bubble above their car. But you rarely see some of the more grim