• icedterminal@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    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.

    • TheDannysaur@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      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.