Wing mirrors on cars

[Max Demian]

If you need all that crap, why do they let over 70s drive anything?

[Tekkie®]

rbowman posted for all of us...

It's called the: Braille method

[Tekkie®]

NY posted for all of us...

Hey NY it's spelled curbs in the USA.

Newer cars have a setting on them the allows the outside mirrors to tilt downward to see the curb. In fact my cars have automatic parking ability. It does not account for the idiot Corvette driver that pulls 8 inches from your bumper with the turn signal & back up lights on. The sensors screamed and brakes applied automatically...

[NY]

Apologies. I'd used both alternative spellings in some of my other posts, but I forgot in this one!

Yes, that feature is very useful on cars which have it. On my old Peugeot I need to do it manually with the 4-way joystick, but my wife's 2015 Honda CR-V has it - but only for the passenger side. It only works if the left-off-right slider switch is in the left (passenger for RHD) position. Strange that if you put the slider in the RHS position (which allows the driver's mirror rather than the passenger mirror to be adjusted by the 4-way joystick), the auto-tilt-when-reverse-is-engaged doesn't work.

I know you are usually encouraged to park with your passenger side next to the kerb/curb (and in the UK it's actually illegal to park on the opposite side *at night* because cars don't have reflectors at the front for them to be seen by passing traffic) but even so it would be useful if engaging reverse tilted both mirrors down so you could see *either* rear wheel relative to its adjacent kerb/curb so you can park as close as possible without mounting the kerb/curb.

Some superhuman people claim to be able to estimate where their car is in relation to the kerb/curb, even though it is longer visible, and scorn the need to tilt the mirrors downwards, but I'm a mere mortal and I rely on this unless there's a convenient lamp-post nearby which continues the line of the kerb/curb upwards to a point where you can see it through the rear-side window and hence judge how close you are to the kerb/curb.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

These sorts of games should have less rules. It would be far more fun for the spectators.

[Bob Eager]

No, then.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

I don't have this problem, I'm overtaken about once per 200 miles. Drive faster.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

I have no blind spots on my car. The overtaking car is in the rearview mirror, then the wing mirror, then in my peripheral vision. Never a point where they're in none of those.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Odd I have never in my entire life seen a truck driver from any country do anything stupid. Only car drivers and cyclists, and of course pedestrians.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Or just use your eyes?!

[James Wilkinson Sword]

I was awoken in the night to a bleeping noise I didn't recognise. I was still half asleep and determined it wasn't the smoke alarm, so went back to sleep. The next morning I found it was the computer's UPS warning me the power was off and it was running on battery, which it was still doing the following morning, caused by a short under the house which had evaporated the incoming wire.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Do you not believe what Huge wrote?

[Tim Streater]

Don't be a twerp. When I became 70, I didn't lose anything that I used before 70. So just an administrative thing at this point.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

That was a long long time ago.

What?! When driving an auto you simply don't care what gear it's in. You just press the pedal to go faster. The gear changes don't concern the driver one iota.

Why bother? When it needs to change, it will change, just let it do it's own job.

Far easier to just use the throttle or brake.

You want more power, press the pedal further down, it's very easy.

Never had a surge of power in an auto. Unless I requested it by slamming my foot down to get past someone.

I find that wonderful. When driving at town speeds, you can hardly tell a gear change has taken place. Why on earth wouldn't you like that?

Sounds like a lot of unnecessary rubbish to me. 4 gears with a torque convertor has always done me just fine.

For some reason some electric cars are designed with two gears.

[Huge]

Quelle surprise.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Is that one of those budget cars you get for well under =A310K?

That must look ridiculous, like a kid's designed it.

I've seen similarly stupid things with back wipers - ones which aren't c= entral, and ones which park vertically as though they've got stuck midwa= y through the cycle - there was a spate of GMs like that in the UK, earl= y Astras I think.

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[rbowman]

That would be hurling. There are a few obscure rules that aren't always followed.

[rbowman]

The eyes are focused on the iPhone screen as they text their girlfriend.

[boltar]

We'll add not being able to read to your list of non-abilities shall we?

[boltar]

Not much use if its high speed curved track. Tbh there shouldn't be any level crossings on ANY high speed line IMO.