Mirrors have been an integral part of motor vehicles for over a century. The low tech solution has solved the major visibility issues involved with driving and now car makers think they can do one better using cameras instead of mirrors. This may be an improvement in large trucks where visibility using mirrors can be poor to the point that obstacles directly in front and behind the vehicle cannot be seen but for cars it may prove to be a theft opportunity.
Best not to mount a mirror, or indeed a camera, directly in the line of fire of a neighboring car door in the parking lot. Maybe someone should tell them about the practicalities of life?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @11:28AM (1 child)
Those little bitty windows in the doors, where the passenger's feet would go, if you have a passenger. Again, the only time it might provide any value, is in slow speed maneuvering, trying to back into a difficult dock.
No
The reason they are there is so you can be blamed for crushing shit-head cyclists who are stupid enough to creep up on your inside while you are waiting at junctions.
Hint: if you are a cyclist keep away from 44 ton metal objects which might fail to see you, ESPECIALLY if you have no idea at all about the problems the driver faces with mental and physical workload, while are unwilling to give any clear and meaningful indication of your intentions - and indeed might not have the ability to have intentions. We as truck drivers know full well that, as riders of two wheeled objects, you have the right to be bat-shit crazy and are likely to exercise that right at any time and without warning.
School children should be taught that trucks are more dangerous than angry dragons and cannot easily be bought off with nubile virgins (but its always worth a try ;-)
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Thursday January 02 2020, @09:57PM
Virgins are over-rated. Just saying. 😊
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