Quote Originally Posted by ISAtlanta300
If you set up your mirrors good enough, you can almost completely eliminate blind spots. The trick is not to set the mirrors to look at your car's back end, but far enough out so that you can almost not see your back end. When you do this, you will see most cars in your mirror before they "dissappear" and appear in your pheriperal vision. For extra security, you can still "glance" to the side, but you won't have to do the break-neck manoeuver of looking back, and looking forward.
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This is exactly how I set my mirrors, and there is no need to look over. The point is to not have much of the car reflecting in the mirror.