How often do you check your rear view/side mirrors?

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Anonymous wrote:All the time, because I have an old car that doesn’t have the video screen or beeping alerts to tell me that a car is near mine.

People who rely on those alerts are massively shitty drivers. They are NOT a replacement for checking your mirrors every few seconds.

Sure, Boomer


I never worry about side mirrors anymore with blind spot monitoring. That’s the whole point of the feature, grandma. To free up your attention you were previously devoting to checking your side mirrors and let you focus on other things.

If you adjust your side mirrors properly, there are no blind spots.

This is not true for all cars -- some have bigger blind spots than others and depending on the height and length of the vehicle and the height/length of the vehicle in your blindspot, even a perfectly adjusted mirror can miss someone.

I personally am in favor of blind spot detectors AND checking properly adjusted mirrors AND turning to check your blind spot. If I'm going 70 mph down a freeway and changing lanes, I think some redundant systems for making sure I don't swing right into another vehicle are in order. But then, I don't want to die or accidentally kill someone while driving, which apparently is an unusual attitude for drivers these days.

I do all of that as well, check mirrors and look over the shoulder when changing lanes. Yet, I manage to miss a car next to me once in a while. So, the blind spot warning comes to the rescue. Also, when changing lanes I try to do it gradually so that the other drivers have time to react. As for watching your mirrors, I want to make sure I have a rough idea what is going on around me in case I have to make a sudden maneuver so I scan my mirrors briefly all the time but take a closer look when preparing to change lanes or slow down.