One of the most important aspects in learning to drive is to know and understand the blind spots of our vehicle, having this knowledge will help us travel safer by preventing accidents caused by them.
blind spot is generated by the limitations of our mirrors, there are a couple of areas on the sides of our vehicle where we can lose sight of a car that runs on our side and it can cause an accident by changing lanes.
To better understand this point consider the following image, it is marked the areas where we could not do with our conventional mirrors, depending on the setting of our mirrors these areas "blind" would expand or diminish.
To reduce the effect of the blind spot may take the following steps: Set
our mirrors to expand our vision , these must be set so that when an object disappears a mirror appears in the following, which disappear when our side mirror can see him through the side windows with a slight head turn.
in the side mirrors we see the least of our body, and is for reference only, to see behind us, we use the central mirror of our car. At all times we keep our windows and mirrors clean and free of objects that obstruct our vision. Install
small convex mirrors on the sides as an additional measure we can buy small mirrors that attach to the side mirrors, so extending our object detection located in our blind spot. To do this we must choose those that are small and do not affect our side vision.
worth noting that many automakers include small areas on the sides of the convex mirror, so you do not need to install an additional mirror.
Avoid installing protections for the moons of the bulky side mirrors , many car owners installed as a security measure safeguards that reduce the viewing angle, so you have to adjust the mirror more inward, increasing the blind spot, try not to install these "protections" or find alternatives that do not increase your blind spots.
Buying a vehicle detection system blind spot, of course this is the most expensive car the recently identified security measures being visual alerts and / or sound to tell us the existence of a vehicle in our blind spot zone.
