The height actually makes it worse cause they will often have a drop hitch to get low enough to meet the trailer, this tends to make it even less noticeable that there is a hitch at shin level.

Okay, maybe their arms

At the rate many pedestrians are locked into looking down at their phones, eye level obstructions are maybe more dangerous.

I can hear the 'Hemi tick' all the way from Australia.

The drunk driver will still find a way to get it going.