Cars that don’t mangle their occupants when they crash are good. Cars that make it easy for their drivers to see their surroundings are good. So it’s too bad that one of the best ways to deliver on the former gets in the way of the latter.
Recent decades of safety-focused design have led to increasingly thick A-pillars, the term for the pillars at the front of the car that hold up the roof. (The B-pillars sit between the front and rear doors; the C-pillar support the rear window.)
