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Old 06-13-2012, 07:49 AM   #18
glatt
 
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce View Post
If you can turn your head and see it, it's NOT a blind spot. A blind spot is created when vision is being restricted by part of the vehicle. A mirror or closed circuit TV is the ONLY way to see what's in your blind spot. Motorcycles don't had blind spots.
Yeah, and car stylists don't seem to care about blind spots much at all. In the 80's, for example, car visibility was far superior, and now you need backup cameras on regular passenger cars. It's trendy now to have narrow slit windows in back, and tall trunks that restrict views. Back in the 80s, the windows came down low all around, and the pillars were narrower. It was like driving in a fishbowl. You could see everything.

I'm kind of a crotchety old man when it comes to cars today. They mostly suck. There are a couple nice ones here and there, but mostly they are going in the wrong direction.
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