My mirrors are adjusted correctly according to Tom and Ray’s directions. I even have the extra little mirrors that help, but I can turn and look, and I do. And I have been surprised to see a car otherwise not noticeable otherwise. Also on a 3 lane highway I would not have seen a car in the outside lane merging into the center lane as I was going to go from the inside lane to the middle lane at the same time.
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During college I worked several summers on a road crew, often on Interstates, and there were several times I felt lucky to get home in one piece.
Some people, comfortable in their 2 ton vehicle going 60 MPH, have no idea what it’s like having said vehicle whizzing by inches away from you so if it takes a law so be it. Maybe a stiff fine will help them understand.
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The law was “move over or slow down” and the law now is “move over and slow down 20 mph”. Simply defining what “slow down” means. OK, so that’s nice, we now know what they mean but how is a trooper less dead if he/she/it is hit at 50 instead of 70? I really don’t see it having much of an impact on the real issue. After a 6 month to one year period to get used to the move over laws, I just haven’t seen many violations. People just seem to automatically move over. And in fact they not only move over for emergency vehicles, but they move over for non-emergency vehicles stopped on the side. Everybody goes home patting themselves on the back for another problem resolved.
I’ve also done that for years. They’re called “blind spots” for a reason.
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Here in New England there are lots of places where you can’t see what is up ahead. I find Waze very helpful. Sine trucks are prohibited from the left two lanes on most of our highways, if you are in the right lane for some reason, merging left can be very difficult at times. Waze alerts a driver to the upcoming situation much sooner than line of sight.
Dang it, I was hoping this was about getting left-lane hogs to move over, the ones who cruise in the passing lane. On German autobahns in the 1970s, I’d never see this. It was against the law, and enforced. Not around San Antonio.
It occurred to me that, in addition to turning my head, I lean forward so I can see farther left in my driver’s side mirror. Do you do that as well?
Another in a long list of laws that only a few obey and that aren’t generally enforced.
Common in Washington when the shoulder permit’s,