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To: BlueDragon
Driver will be the first to arrive on the scene of an accident...

Yeah, beat me to it. And everyone will see him scratch his butt and everything else.

22 posted on 03/03/2014 1:19:20 PM PST by bgill
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To: bgill

The side window visibility isn't all that bad in conventional trucks, if a driver takes the time to look. though there can be a blind spot if the driver doesn't turn his head and actually look to his left, and downward too.

It's the right-hand side which has the larger blind area...if a driver isn't always monitoring the mirrors...some dummy can sneak up into the right-side blind, then stay there. Changing lanes to the right is one of the more dangerous outmaneuvers.

But look at those tiny mirrors. How is a driver supposed to see much in those little things?

I know mirrors cause a lot of drag (old fashioned, so-called "West Coast" mirrors which can be flat. slab like affairs, about the worst)

But trucks need mirrors. The more the merrier, and a driver should use them all, all the time.

29 posted on 03/03/2014 1:44:19 PM PST by BlueDragon (Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.Proverbs 29:18)
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