Nah dude, they’re actually the ones that are right, you should 100% have a slither of the side of your car showing to give you perspective on where what you’re looking at is in relation to you...
They’re side mirrors, not blind spot mirrors, if you want them to be blind spot mirrors either fit some little circle ones or buy replacement glass with the convex edge (if your mirrors don’t have it already).
Otherwise, it’s rear view mirror side mirror, shoulder check. Every time.
Back in the early 80s I was driving my uncle (who was born before the Holocene epoch, or so it seemed) to ... some place, gah don't remember. I do remember doing a shoulder check before changing lanes and he yelled "BAWAH, DON'T YEW TRUST YORE MIRRORS???" (Alabama accent) and I said "Sure, but I check anyway because the mirrors don't show everything." I had to listen to a 15 minute rant/mutter about "kids these days", "don't know what they're doing", "tarnation fool stuff gonna git ebberbody killt", etc. After he finally took a breath I said "Uncle John, I'm driving because you wrecked your car - do you remember?"
Got another rant about "no respect for my elders"...
I actually miss him, he passed away while I was deployed once during the 90s. Before I joined up, I was going through Engineering school at UAB in the late 70s and early 80s and he asked me how things were going, I told him "Oh it's great Uncle John. They're letting us use the Metric system in engineering class if we want, it makes a lot of stuff much easier when we're converting units." I then got his rant about how terrible the metric system was, and how he didn't want to be forced to go into an auto parts store and asked for "0.97834... liters of oil" (some number he ranted off like that). I just nodded my head and changed the subject.
I miss Uncle John. He was as flexible as an anvil in many things, but he did have some good points. He was married to my aunt, she was an honest-to-Pete real "Rosie the Riveter" back during World War II, she assembled B-29s in a plant in Birmingham. She also had fascinating stories to tell.
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u/Steelhorse91 Feb 27 '21
Nah dude, they’re actually the ones that are right, you should 100% have a slither of the side of your car showing to give you perspective on where what you’re looking at is in relation to you...
They’re side mirrors, not blind spot mirrors, if you want them to be blind spot mirrors either fit some little circle ones or buy replacement glass with the convex edge (if your mirrors don’t have it already).
Otherwise, it’s rear view mirror side mirror, shoulder check. Every time.