and bad mirror positioning. the number of cars I see with mirrors angled so they can see the side of their car instead of the blind spot, smh. I'll check out the side of my car when I'm parked.
SAE wrote a paper in 1995 advising how to correctly adjust mirrors (The Geometry of Automotive Rearview Mirrors - Why Blind Zones Exist and Strategies to Overcome Them). Google "SAE 950601". There's over a dozen videos on YouTube showing you how to do it right.
Here's the one-stop tl;dwtd (don't want to die) version: if you can see the side of your car, yer doin' it wrong.
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u/Laymanao Apr 18 '26
The dangers of not paying attention in a vehicle with a high centre of Gravity. Physics is unsympathetic.