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Originally Posted by ashtray
Adjusting mirrors for blind spots can be dangerous on a highway in CA. Once you adjust the mirrors so you can't see the edge of your car, you create a thin blind lane right around where the lane markings are. Too narrow to really be dangerous, except for the motorcycles that fly down that narrow gap between cars when you're in traffic. Inside rearview is useless - all you see is the big SUV behind you. If your side mirrors are angled out at all, potential for a lane change fatality.
(I adjust my mirrors so the side of my car takes up 5% of the mirror. Some idiots adjust it so half their car is visible.)
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Ok Im gonna sound like a total **** but if a bike wants to pass and "share a lane" than its their fault! Fuck it. Sorry for the bikers out here but they're been waaaay to many times a biker buzzes past me hella close and scared the crap out of me. It's amazing the risk they take.
Oh and as far as the blind spot, I don't think its that bad. I mean in my 350 its BAD and you learn to change lanes using the mirrors adjusted correctly. Knock on wood but 6 years driving it in long commute.