Panoramic Rearview Mirror

[jersey_emt]

If your mirrors are adjusted properly you will have no blind spot in most vehicles, and only a tiny blind spot (smaller than even a motorcycle) in all but very few vehicles.

Hardly anybody has their side mirrors adjusted properly. If you can see the side of your car in the mirrors from your normal driving position they are not adjusted properly. They need to be tilted out much farther. Mine are out as far as they can, and when the top is up (I drive a Miata) and the rear visibility is not good at all, I can watch a motorcycle drive past without ever losing sight of it. When it's far enough behind me, I see it in the rear-view mirror. When the front wheel disappears from view in that mirror, the front wheel appears in the (properly adjusted) side mirror. When the front wheel disappears from view in the side mirror, the most of the bike is already in my peripheral vision.

 

[vtakk]

If your mirrors are adjusted properly you will have no blind spot in most vehicles, and only a tiny blind spot (smaller than even a motorcycle) in all but very few vehicles.

Hardly anybody has their side mirrors adjusted properly. If you can see the side of your car in the mirrors from your normal driving position they are not adjusted properly. They need to be tilted out much farther. Mine are out as far as they can, and when the top is up (I drive a Miata) and the rear visibility is not good at all, I can watch a motorcycle drive past without ever losing sight of it. When it's far enough behind me, I see it in the rear-view mirror. When the front wheel disappears from view in that mirror, the front wheel appears in the (properly adjusted) side mirror. When the front wheel disappears from view in the side mirror, the most of the bike is already in my peripheral vision.

I agree. The only thing is I still adjust side mirrors to catch a side of the car a little. Reasons:
1 - while driving your head position is not locked. you need some delta..
2 - gives better feel to understand how close to the car given object is

I think I'm gonna stay away from panoramic rear view mirror. It may kill my habit to turn head over my shoulder.

 

[RelliMS3]

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[tiagotiago]

I agree. The only thing is I still adjust side mirrors to catch a side of the car a little. Reasons:
1 - while driving your head position is not locked. you need some delta..
2 - gives better feel to understand how close to the car given object is

+1 I do try to follow the guidelines Jersey states, but I find I need to see just a bit of my car, for reference purposes in the side mirrors.

That said, I've never had a problem with the stock mirrors in the MS3, actually I think they're great; tough I'm coming from a 2000 New Beetle, which still had ridiculously small side mirrors(fyi later adressed in 2004), and a big ass blind spot from the weird shape. I almost sideswiped cars in my blindspot several times the first weeks I drove one (not helped at all by the fact I was a younger less experienced driver).

 

[vtakk]

+1 I do try to follow the guidelines Jersey states, but I find I need to see just a bit of my car, for reference purposes in the side mirrors.

That said, I've never had a problem with the stock mirrors in the MS3, actually I think they're great; tough I'm coming from a 2000 New Beetle, which still had ridiculously small side mirrors(fyi later adressed in 2004), and a big ass blind spot from the weird shape. I almost sideswiped cars in my blindspot several times the first weeks I drove one (not helped at all by the fact I was a younger less experienced driver).

compare to G35 coupe.. those are tiny comparing to MPS

 

[Olestra]

I agree. The only thing is I still adjust side mirrors to catch a side of the car a little. Reasons:
1 - while driving your head position is not locked. you need some delta..
2 - gives better feel to understand how close to the car given object is

I think I'm gonna stay away from panoramic rear view mirror. It may kill my habit to turn head over my shoulder.

You should be able to get away with the mirror just out of view from the side of your car. If you need to see the side of your car in relation to an object, that's what moving your torso or head over will help you with.

 

[oaklandopen]

If you need to see the side of your car in relation to an object, that's what moving your torso or head over will help you with.

i disagree because the safest thing you can do while driving is to face straight ahead because basically that's the direction you're headed. and by facing straight ahead that means only your eyes have to move to scan objects, and your eyes move faster than your head or body ever could.

so when the sides of your vehicle are just skimming the line of sight in the side view mirrors (which i also have mine set to) it gives you a relation of your car to an object or other car without having to move your torso/head to see.

and i think mirror adjustment so you just barely see the side of your car in the side mirrors is actually a standard method accross the board. that's what i was taught

 

[MaikuMS3]

you can always get a small rounded fish eye? mirror that attached on your side mirrors. i have seen people done that and maybe that will get rid of blindspots.