For quite a while the adjustment of the driver's door one was by a little joystick that was mechanically coupled to the mirror, no need to open the window or anything but not an electric motor either.
trouble is that as you get lder your body doesn't turn as easily. I find the reversing camera a godsend.
Well done with this troll, Hucker. You have excelled yourself this time. Wanker.
Parking involves using whatever aids your car provides. You may have to open the door and look backwards if you have no central rear-view mirror (van/HGV). You may use your door mirrors and/or your rear-view mirror if they give a good enough perception of depth to know when to stop reversing into the wall/car behind you. You may use your cameras and parking sensors if you have them.
A wise driver uses all the technology (mirrors, cameras, parking sensors) available to him, maybe using different things in different situations.
I used to turn and look over my shoulder when reversing because it gives a good all-round view without having to look alternately at right, central and left mirrors. Now I tend to use my mirrors because I can judge *lateral* position (car relative to hedge, kerb, white bay-marking line) better than by looking over my shoulder: use central mirror to line up equally between cars/lines and then use one door mirror to check that I maintain the spacing between my rear wheel and one of the lines.
It's a shame that none of the cars that I have driven have had cameras in the door mirrors and a split-screen view from both, which is easier to monitor than looking alternately into left and right mirrors, with the delay while the eyes/brain context-shifts between one and the other.
I know how to drive and park but with the design of most cars today you see no part of your car out the rear window. Rear cameras are mandatory on 2018 models.
Can you actually read the message on the passenger door mirror from the driver's seat?
2011.
It seems from reading this group that
This state has no safety or smog tests. My brother had an elderly Tercel that he loved but he lived in California which has rigid smog tests. When it could no longer pass he donated it to one of those programs that ships cars to third world countries so it probably is happily polluting the world in Uruguay or someplace.
You might get stopped for defective equipment like a burned out light here but that's way down on the cops' todo list.
The car is the newest thing in the driveway. The oldest is the '86 pickup followed by the '98 Harley. Bikes are a little different so I actually bought that one in '97. The other bikes are 15 and 10 years old. They all are licensed and running. The only reason for the 2011 Toyota is a snowplow destroyed the 2007 version.
I sincerely hope not. I've seen the future though. The last time a cop stopped me he approached on the passenger side. When I reached across to roll down the window he said 'I didn't know they made manual windows anymore,'
I am getting like my father who viewed automatic transmissions, power brakes, power steering, and car radios with extreme suspicion. He was reconciled to heaters. (at the time a heater showed up as an extra cost option).
I became reconciled to air conditioning when I couldn't buy a car without it. Same with ABS. I suppose the other crap will follow.
Yes. Once, unless I knock them out of adjustment scraping ice off. Nobody drives my car but me. Why would I worry about adjusting mirrors, seats, and so forth?
That's about right. When I was a kid the family ride didn't have door mirrors and I persuaded my father to let me mount mirrors forward on the fenders (wings) like real racers. Of course that was over 50 years ago too.
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You mean like 'icebox'? The thing is I'm not sure Mr. Sword is old enough to ever have seen a mirror mounted on a wing.
Shall we move on to Buffalo Hot Wings?
That might be the only tradition they are not pissing away.
I did not write the above.
I agree with that apart from what's after the comma. There is no reason everyone should check where everything goes.
I'd have thought Americans would have changed later, since they tend to have very long bonnets/hoods.
I drive a substandard model and the idea certainly hasn't trickled down that far yet.
I've seen it on trucks ans SUVs. Haven't seen it on cars (but I haven't driven a GM newer than about 5 years)
good god. You turn round when reversing rather than using the mirrors?
sheesh!
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