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Uh, yeah. "Look both ways" before crossing an intersection, all of 45 degrees left, and 5 degrees right (unless you ask the right seat passenger to look to their 45 degrees to the right). :(

Visual field of view not exactly a high priority for Gemini Spacecraft, only enough to see what was needed for close rendezvous and docking. Far-off rendezvous, they had radar that could "ping" the target before they had a visual view on it.

A high-tech solution for this would be for it to sport a lot of tiny cameras, for the cockpit to have either a multi-panel computer screen view, or for the driver to wear Virtual Reality glasses. Also of course the potential to make it a self-driving car with manual "nudging" by the passengers to alter the navigation.

Much more practical to drive spacecraft converted to car, driver view-wise, would be a space shuttle. And it's been done. Well, morel like a bus, or a van tricked-out to look shuttle-ish. But even an accurate orbiter cockpit would have a pretty decent field of view for a car.

This was converted from a DC-3 airliner fuselage:

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If I had lottery money, I might have a van like this:

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