Somebody posted a week or two ago about pushing the *door* mirrors out far further than normal.
I had a go at this last weekend.
1. When the rear side windows mist up - for instance the boot is full of wet umbrellas, boots, coats (dogs) - what then?
2. You lose a blind spot that you can check by looking over your shoulder, and replace it with a blind spot that is by the rear wing, plenty large enough to hide a cyclist, and requiring a head on a swivel mount to check. See diagram.
www.use.com/0658e8e05d733682939d
3. My rear view mirror doesn't give me any view through the rear side windows anyway, so there's only really that which shows up through the back window. The car's pillars are too large.
4. I already set my mirrors so as not to show any of the paint on the car, but only just.
5. Maybe it's because I drive an estate car. Maybe it's because I'm used to using my *door* mirrors more than the average car driver, having spent a lot of time driving vans with no rear view.
Anyway, downright dangerous IMHO. Anybody convince me otherwise?
(Edited to change *wing* to *door* so as not to irritate a certain Vauxhall driver.)
Last edited by: Mapmaker on Wed 24 Feb 10 at 09:18
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