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Mine has the convex bit on the end which widens it a bit - and they're not exactly small, and I have them adjusted quite far out.
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I don't see much of my own truck in my side mirrors, I angle them so the image on the inside edge is nearly parallel. Just enough for me to see parking lot lines in relation to my rear wheels. Not sure why I'd want to be looking at my own rear doors like most people set them.
I have stick-on wide-angle mirrors too. I literally have no side blind spot, by the time I can't see someone in the mirror I can see them out of my peripheral vision.
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I know that's how I learned it. But a few years ago I read that if you tilt them out some, so you just can't see the car's side, you get a wider overall field of view, you don't have to lean to check in the blind spot, and the blind spot is reduced
Yup - also how I learned, and how I set the mirrors. Can just about see the edge of the car, and the nearside mirror optionally adjusts further in & down when put in reverse to see the curb better (but I've used that about twice since discovering it).
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Not sure why I'd want to be looking at my own rear doors like most people set them.
Well, that's my point! Bad teaching, probably. Who knows how it started.
I try to tell people about it if there's an opening to do so because it really does make a small improvement in the driving experience.
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nd the nearside mirror optionally adjusts further in & down when put in reverse to see the curb better (but I've used that about twice since discovering it).
I tried that, but I don't use it either. If I feel a need to in a specific instance, well, both mirrors are powered, so I just adjust one and then put it back.
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a tachometer measures rotations per unit time (usually minutes). this is the one with the redline
and odometer measures units of distance traveled since X point in time (x being when it last was reset or clicked over to 0) this is the de3vice that the bare units miles makes sense for
relatedly a speedometer measures velocityspeed as distance traveled per unit time (often Mi/hr or Km/hr)
I remember an extra-credit question in like my fifth or sixth semester of calculus when we did a lot of stuff involving "arc length". Mr (or it may have been Dr by that point) Lutz asked us for the name of "an instrument that measures arc length directly". I dismissed odometer because it seemed a little off, and responded with opisometer. I didn't get credit for it because he apparently wanted the answer spline.
But hey, at least I know what an opisometer is. I even went to the map store a few months later and bought one.
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"On the walls someone has hung old maps, Currier and Ives prints"
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On the walls someone has hung old maps, Currier and Ives prints
who the hell wants to watch an old movie set in the Philippines?
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doubly-surprised I only used the mirrors, but that's the trick
Absolutely. Side mirrors show you exactly where you're going. Trying to line up the side of the house, fence, garage, parking spot? Put it in the mirror, that's where that side of the car is about to go. Also the best way to back a trailer because you can trivially see if it's straight.
Also, yay for massive mirrors like big elephant ears.
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I learned to look back, and in general I usually do. But when I'm backing into my driveway, trash can on one side and a low concrete block wall on the other, this:
@another_sam said:Trying to line up the side of the house, fence, garage, parking spot? Put it in the mirror, that's where that side of the car is about to go.
