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Originally Posted by mdm
I suspect this might be a "common knowledge" that just persists without being properly studied. Sort of like setting your side mirrors: even driver's manuals say that you should see the back of your car. But it is wrong, you don't really need to see your car, you know where it is anyway. You should set the side mirrors as far out as possible as long as the field of view barely overlaps with the inside mirror's field of view. This way you have maximum coverage and minimum blind spots. Of course, like with left-foot braking, you have to retrain your brain a bit, and use the inside mirror also to check the side lanes. But there is net advantage, and there was a SAE paper about that in 1995, yet only recently this knowledge slowly started to trickle into general knowledge.
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@common knowledge Kinda like 2 cars traveling towards each other at 50mph do not equal a 100mph collision on either party as driving school teachers always told us. Thank you mythbusters!
