Forget About Lane Detection Warnings — Properly Adjust Your Side Mirrors
Last month I attended the massive Chicago Auto Show with my husband. The amount of technology in ordinary new cars is simply astonishing: rearview cameras, automatic braking, and lane detection warning. For those of us unable to afford a 2015 car until 2020 or later I can offer a cheap tip to make up for a lack of lane detection: properly adjust your mirrors. When I took my driver’s exam at 16 I don’t think my mom;s 1974 Dodge Dart even had a passenger mirror.
YOU SHOULD NOT SEE YOUR CAR IN YOUR SIDE MIRRORS!
Here’s a visual guide:
If you think I’m just making this up, see:
You can also just watch this brief video:
Even if you have a new car with lane detection warning go ahead and adjust those power heated mirrors so you can see vehicles in the next lanes — you don’t need to see your own car.
— Steve Patterson
Or instead of spending hundreds on fancy technology, but a $2 convex mirror that sticks on your side mirror and lets you see everything.