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I live next door to a grade school, and at the time I leave for work, the kids are streaming in. A kid standing behind the car is not visible out of the rear window line of sight.
Blind spot mirrors will tell you who is there, but they wont tell you who is coming up at some crazy rate and about to enter into the field of view. In Europe where most people know how to drive, this is not so much of an issue, in NA where left lane hogs and passing on the wrong side are both religions, more so. Like I said, not a good car for slice and dice driving. |
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or always reverse park your car so you never need to back out onto the main road for slice and dice driving you need to monitor the cars and see where each car is on the road before switching lanes...plan your lines in advance and be ready to swerve back in your lane or slam on the brakes.....then again driving on the highway like that is foolish and pointless but driving on I-95 everyday with these crazy floridians will teach you how to drive like a cautious maniac |
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Got act clutch with lightweight flywheel and it's still fun and easy to drive in LA traffic so you should be fine
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Drive a 2010 Camaro THEN talk about blind spots. Or try driving a HHR panel van and you'll find the flaw in your argument |
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The problem is not in the lane next to you. It's in the next lane over. If you go more than one lane width away, it is impossible to adjust away that blind spot. That means on a road with three or more lanes, you can have someone pacing you two lanes over that you can't see. If both of you move to the center lane at the same time, the other car suddenly appears out of nowhere. The same thing goes for on-ramps on highways. In most places in the US, on-ramps come into the highway at an angle. Until you're right alongside traffic, that extra distance over the grass between you and the travel lane puts some of those vehicles right in the blind spot. I've driven a lot of cars over the years, and this is one of the more difficult ones to merge into flowing traffic because of that huge gap in what you can see. Trying to pretend there's no blind spot "at all" is a recipe for a wreck. |
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You are correct. But this fact should be applicable to any car, not only 86/BRZ. It depends on the width of the sight angle of a particular car. The body type may play the part but not as much as how one adjusts his side mirrors and the width of the sight angle itself. |
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Additionally, that's almost always incorrect with reference to traffic entering from an on ramp. The guy on the on ramp must yield the right of way to traffic already in the travel lane, regardless of whether it's in his blind spot. While it's an asshole move not to allow traffic to merge in, the guy in the travel lane has the right of way over merging traffic. |
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