How to Eliminate Your Blind Spots

We’re talking about your car. More specifically, your car’s mirrors. When we learn how to drive, we learn how to crack every vertebra in our necks by whipping our heads around our shoulders for a split second to make sure no one’s in our blind spot before we change lanes. And then we learn from defensive driving courses that this “split second” could be the difference between life and death if we don’t keep our eyes on the road.

 

 

Personally, I’m against anything with “blind” in the name when I’m barreling down a highway in a three-ton metal box on wheels at 85 miles per hour. There’s got to be a better way. As it turns out, there is. And it doesn’t involve getting one of those stupid blind spot mirrors to stick onto your existing mirrors. It’s called don’t position your freaking mirrors up so that you have blind spots. This should be obvious. Turns out the standard setup is a complete waste of mirror space. There’s so much overlap, they should make it legal to drive with one mirror missing as long as you have the other two. Wait, that actually is the law.

 

So how exactly do you do this? The trick is to turn your side-view mirrors outwards until there is zero overlap between them and the interior rear-view mirror. That’s pretty much it. It will feel weird to drive like this at first, because we’re used to looking down the sides of our vehicles when we look out our side-view mirrors. The first few times you look out those mirrors, you’ll have no point of reference and feel like you’re looking out into the middle of nowhere. But stick with it, and you’ll begin to learn where you’re looking. Next time a car passes you up, watch it pass through the mirrors: you’ll see it clearly in your rear-view mirror, and then they’ll slowly transition into your side-view mirror, and as soon as they disappear from your side-view mirror, you’ll be able to see them out your window. At no point in time will you lose sight of them.

 

Say goodbye to blind spots forever! Actually, say good riddance. Actually, don’t say anything because your blind spots can’t hear you. They’re blind and deaf. They’re basically the Helen Keller of car parts. Here’s another picture.

 

 

So there you have it. No more craning your neck to look the complete opposite direction from where you’re supposed to be looking.

 

Happy driving, NeverNoobs!

 

 

Do you have another workaround? Find us on Facebook and tell us about it.