The blind spot mirrors on cars are becoming irrelevant tech.\u00a0 Many people now believe the side mirrors are rear view mirrors and mistakenly adjust them to look at the car directly behind, giving three views of the same vehicle.\u00a0 If you pull up behind such a car, you will see the driver\u2019s face in the side mirrors.<\/p>\n
Automobile side mirrors are not rear view mirrors.\u00a0 The rear view mirror is the one in the center of the windshield.\u00a0 The side mirrors are safety additions to cover \u201cblind spots\u201d.\u00a0 These are the areas behind and to each side where a car in the next lane is invisible when it pulls forward out of the rear view mirror\u2019s field and isn\u2019t yet far enough forward to see with peripheral vision or a glance to the side.\u00a0 Properly adjusted side mirrors allow you to see a car in the blind spots and avoid a potentially disastrous lane change or turn resulting in a collision that will be your fault.<\/p>\n
The blind spot mirrors can be roughly adjusted while parked.\u00a0 Put the driver\u2019s seat in its normal position and adjust the mirrors up or down until the horizon is in the middle of the mirror.\u00a0 Lean to the left until your head touches the window and adjust the left mirror until you can just see the side of your car at the right edge of the mirror.\u00a0 Lean the same distance to the right and adjust the right mirror until you can just see the side of your car at the left edge of the mirror.\u00a0 This procedure produces a good approximation and will cover most blind spots.\u00a0 The adjustment can be fine tuned in traffic as you observe whether you pick up passing cars in the next lane in the side mirrors before they leave the rear view field and whether you can see them with peripheral vision before they leave the side mirror fields.\u00a0 Even with properly adjusted mirrors there are still blind spots for cars two lanes away and also for cars on a highway when you are merging at an angle.\u00a0 But properly adjusted side mirrors will allow you to scan for converging traffic in these cases by moving your head and avoid an accident.<\/p>\n
The really bad effect of this is that some current car engineers either do not know what the side mirrors are for, or kowtow to their marketing wonks who decided that customers do not know and shouldn\u2019t be informed.\u00a0 As a result, the blind spot mirrors on some new cars cannot be adjusted to cover the blind spots and can only be used to give a duplicate rear view.\u00a0 Check this when you shop for a new car by trying the above procedure.\u00a0 If the mirrors can\u2019t be correctly adjusted, register your dissatisfaction, go somewhere else, and save yourself from a potential accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The blind spot mirrors on cars are becoming irrelevant tech.\u00a0 Many people now believe the side mirrors are rear view mirrors and mistakenly adjust them to look at the car directly behind, giving three views of the same vehicle.\u00a0 If you pull up behind such a car, you will see the driver\u2019s face in the … Continue reading “Blind Spots”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[33,35,34],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-blind-spot","tag-car","tag-mirror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}