It seems you and I are alone in this thread. I like how you said a continuous field of view, that’s exactly what it is. The over the shoulder check is unesscessarily dangerous, and leaves you bet susceptible to rear ending people.
For most people, you shouldn’t see your own car in your side mirrors.
Idk why people have a hard time grasping it. Not one bit of my car is visible in the door mirrors. The issue comes down to who educates drivers these days. An independent training program for new drivers is going to be much more thorough. The local DMV isn’t gonna care too much. People have this obsession where the need to so what’s directly behind them with all three mirrors, when that’s not what all three are for.
From what I’ve seen, people are saying the blind spot is anything that’s not in your mirrors. As in your “blind spot” is directly to your left or right. Anything that requires turning your head at all.
Which is fine… But I thought the blind spot referred specifically to the area back left or back right of the driver, where most people do a full turnaround to check those spots. That specific action can be eliminated through proper mirror adjustment. That’s the only point I was trying to make but damn people got spicy about it.
It seems you and I are alone in this thread. I like how you said a continuous field of view, that’s exactly what it is. The over the shoulder check is unesscessarily dangerous, and leaves you bet susceptible to rear ending people.
For most people, you shouldn’t see your own car in your side mirrors.
Idk why people have a hard time grasping it. Not one bit of my car is visible in the door mirrors. The issue comes down to who educates drivers these days. An independent training program for new drivers is going to be much more thorough. The local DMV isn’t gonna care too much. People have this obsession where the need to so what’s directly behind them with all three mirrors, when that’s not what all three are for.
From what I’ve seen, people are saying the blind spot is anything that’s not in your mirrors. As in your “blind spot” is directly to your left or right. Anything that requires turning your head at all.
Which is fine… But I thought the blind spot referred specifically to the area back left or back right of the driver, where most people do a full turnaround to check those spots. That specific action can be eliminated through proper mirror adjustment. That’s the only point I was trying to make but damn people got spicy about it.