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Originally Posted by Turkish
Your rearview mirror sees everything behind you, adjust your side mirrors to barely overlap your rearview and you should have effectively no blind spot (turn your head anyway, there could be a motorcycle in that tiny sliver of a blindspot).
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Best Explanations. I found 2 ways of adjusting the Side mirrors. The Conditions are follows.
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City drive, busy street. You turn them a bit closer to your car. Busy street, and cities usually have narrow lanes, which will make the other cars closer to you, hence the blind spot is much closer. If you were to do a two lanes cross on street, you have to do one, after another, always. With this adjustments, you will always be able to tell which car is next to you, motorcycle, or pavement for park, and parallel park
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Mostly Highway Drive. You turn them further away from your car, because they tend to have Larger Lanes, Faster approaching vehicles, you will be able to tell the vehicles that are approaching from a few car lengths away, including Polices. You will be able to tell the vehicle in the blind spot in the next lane and at the outer lane border. You do need to turn your head for a quick second, right after the correct safety judgement call that it is safe to do so, and is the time to change lanes. This will avoid you of any car too close to your lane, small, dark color, and or a motor-cycle.
3/ Finally, under any mirrors adjustments, you have to do these following:
-Always turn your head when it safe to see, before changing lanes
-Always check around you for any Approaching vehicles when it is safe to do so. You may have to Swerve Out of an Accident in front, a deer, emergency brake....etc. Should those happens, you will be able to tell to whether to keep your lane or swerve. Most of the time...don't swerve. But if your calls are correct, avoiding an accident is the most.
-Do always, and I mean Always make sure to Visibly see On-Coming vehicles, under any Circumstances. Mirrors, and Eyes will often Deceive you under different Circumstances. For Example, If an SUV, a Truck is blocking your View. Take it slowly, leave enough space for the bigger Vehicles to see your car, and Double-triple checks before switching lanes.
I have seen enough where a guy cut into the front of a Truck, and did not leave enough room for the Truck to see his car, accident happen, the truck driver took couple minutes to realize "WTF did I hit"
I have seen enough where a guy Cut into the Front of an SUV, failed to see the approaching vehicles on the right lanes, and switch right into it, accident happens "This took a couple minutes for both to realize WTF!!"
Drive safe !! Always double checks, and tripe checks. A few seconds will not kill you, miss an exit will not kill you. But Reckless to take an exit, or to rush somewhere for a few minutes faster will KILL YOU, and KILL the FAMILY in the Other Vehicles as well