🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:37:49 GMT, eric@badtux.org (Eric Lee Green)
wrote:


>I drive a tall station wagon at the moment (a Subaru Forester) and
>even this relatively low-slung beasty has a nice big blind spot off
>the left rear because of all that sheetmetal and glass back there.
>This thing has *huge* side mirrors, so I'm now relying on my side
>mirrors a lot more than I used to.  I'm thinking about putting one of
>those little "dime" mirrors onto a corner of the left mirror, because
>if I tilt the side mirror out enough to see into the next lane (so I can
>change lanes), I can't see the rear of my car anymore.

Your NOT supposed to see the side of YOUR car in the side mirrors.
Proper aiming/adjustment of the side mirrors is to see cars in the 
blind spot on either side, without  convex  "spot" mirrors.

See these sites for the method to properly adjust the side mirrors for
best safety.  It takes a while to get used to using them this way, but
it really is the best way.

http://www.aaawisc.com/information/newswire/blind.html

http://adtsea.iup.edu/adtsea/TheChronicle/fall_97/Efforts_to_reduce.htm

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/erhard_schreck/blindspo.htm

Basically you set the mirrors so they see a car in the "blind" areas
until you can see them on the side of your peripheral vision.  

Alan Peterman     al@scn.rain.com               Tigard, OR 97224
http://www.scn.rain.com/alweb                       503-684-1984
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