If you can see ANY part of YOUR OWN car in EITHER of your side mirrors, You're Doing It Wrong.
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People, why am I always having to tell you how to drive?
If I'm directly behind you at a light, and I can see your stupid face in your side mirror, you're an idiot. Fix your goddamned mirrors before you kill somebody! >=(
In this situation, it's so refreshing, yet incredibly rare, to see the side of someone's car in their driver's side mirror instead of their face looking at me. I smile a little when that happens, and I feel a little safer because I know that the person in front of me is intelligent and aware of their surroundings. 🙂
Please do yourself and everyone around a favor, and be a safer, more aware driver. Adjust your side mirrors so that the sides of your car are just out of view.
Thank you.
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That entirely depends on your mirrors now, doesn't it?
Mostly pointless IMHO — most driver's awarness goes about as far as their nose. And is otherwise closer to a cat chasing a laser pointer.
My car's mirrors have always been well adjusted for optimal view and well used during driving because I learned to drive on a car with no rearview mirror and only one sideview still attached. If I didn't pay 'attention' then I'd be dead by now.
I have to see part of my Jeep in my mirrors, point of reference.
+Joshua Hocieniec Nope. If you can see bits of your car or light truck in your fancy side mirrors, or if you can see the same car in your fancy side mirrors and your rear view mirror at the same time, you can angle your fancy side mirrors out further to get even better side coverage. CDL-level trucks obviously have a whole other set of mirror-setting advice to follow.
And if you've got one of those rearviews that goes all the way across? 1989 called, and they want it back. =)
+Terry Poulin Raising awareness is never pointless,
evenespecially if your mirrors are perfectly aligned…+Jonathon Barton I agree. Problem is you can't raise the awareness of the people that have no awareness to start with. I truly wish this mirror tuning solution worked for them as well.
(Or such people were denied driver's licenses.)
False. Everyone starts somewhere, Terry. Your stance implies that there is no hope, and that people never, ever change upon receiving new information.
We provably know this to be false. We know people grow and change over the course of their lives. They are not the same person at 60 that they were at 20, or even at 50…
+Jonathon Barton I'd like to believe that but I've encountered enough people that don't change over the decades.
Aren't they generally the minority, though? The type that stands out because of their difference from the norm…
"See! This is why we can't have nice things" is probably the worst of all possible strategies at, well, anything, ever.
+Jonathon Barton you're making assumptions. There is a vast world of difference between the mirrors on a Prius and an F250 with a tow package. CDL not required.
Nope.
I specifically considered that situation – except it was an F-350 Dually with extended mirrors, a 5th wheel in the bed and additional convex "dome" mirrors below, or integral to, the main mirrors.
Perhaps where we differ in opinion is that I'm counting that as 3 mirrors, not 5, and seeing the same car in the flat and convex portions of the left side mirror doesn't count as "seeing the same car in two mirrors" to me.