Blind Spot Mirrors 740Conor Nope. By the time you've started your news client to count the groups the Unix method has finished. For more than a screenful of items? For a hierarchy of files? In...
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, MrBitsy
We're not talking about turning around and admiring the view. We're talking about a very quick glance to see if something is there. The whole thing takes around half a second. My mirrors are properly adjusted but cars disappear from the outside edge of them before their bonnet starts to appear in my side window.
With regard to attention away from the front, I always try and leave a good gap, but if traffic is tight then I'm going much slower anyway, so the same safety applies. If full attention is required up front then of course it gets full attention.
An example of this - when I pbutt parked cars on the left, I glance in the pbuttenger mirror after pbutting them and move back over when I see the headlights of the front car in my mirror. But if there is traffic coming towards me and I gauge that we will be close at the point I would normally look in the mirror, I sacrifice the mirror check and concentrate in front.
I don't think about this, it is instinctive. Hence I wouldn't be glancing over my shoulder if I sensed any danger in taking my eyes off the situation in front. Same goes for the speedometer, which also takes around half a second to visually lock onto and process. In fact the speedometer is arguably more dangerous since drivers are penalised for going a safe but technically illegal amount over a posted limit, so speedo checks are quite frequent and possibly done at inappropriate times. As a new driver, six points and it's game over, so new drivers, who also lack a rounded sense of awareness, are particularly at risk from diverted attention with the speedo.
Blind Spot Mirrors 741My thoughts entirely and my reason for fitting blind spot mirrors and wanting to start this thread...
-- Chris
