NEW GARMIN DEZL 780 & 785
Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by Wave000, Mar 23, 2018.
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Hood mirror? Haven't driven a truck with one of those in probably 12-14 years.
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Also, your habit of not looking in your mirrors until you need to pull out to pass lends itself to cutting off motorists who were quickly approaching. Sure, you were clear when you cut over...but if they didn't slam on their brakes, a second or two later they would have rear-ended you. Your clueless ### doesn't realize just how close you came to being involved in a wreck, because you weren't watching your mirrors to see that they were catching you at a pretty good clip. Plenty of videos of trucks being cut off and brake checked by PO'd cars (and even other trucks)...and being cut off like that and then trapped behind a 65 mph truck as it lumbers past a 64.5 mph truck on a 70 or 75 mph road is a likely trigger for just that sort of behavior.
Scanning the mirrors doesn't take away from watching ahead of you...but it gives a much more complete picture of what is going on all around you. I hate to break it to you, but if you're only paying attention to what is ahead of you (and ignoring the other 90% or what is going on around you), you are NOT a safe driver. Just because you haven't wrecked YET doesn't mean it can't or won't happen...some people are lucky and their bad habits never bite them. The longer you're in this line of work, the more likely your luck will eventually run out...and if you haven't broken those bad habits by then, well, there are plenty of those videos as well. -
I also don't know why you seem to think people who have and utilize hood mirrors are somehow less aware of their surroundings. Makes no sense to think that way. But again ... whatever. SMH
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I have a dislike for most convex mirrors. They distort the image you're seeing enough to make them unreliable for judging distances. Hell, 1st thing I did when I bought my F250 was replace the "objects in mirror" mirror with a piece of flat mirror glass.
Not only that, but those hood mirrors encourage lazy eyes while driving down the road, as you don't have to glance much off straight ahead to make yourself THINK you're getting a good picture of what's going on all around you. Seems everyone that loves their hood mirrors claims not having to turn their head to look at their side mirrors. The problem with that is when you DO need to check your actual side mirrors, it requires more effort and takes longer because you aren't used to looking at them or accustomed to the picture you're seeing in them. It takes your brain a few moments to interpret what you're seeing because it isn't part of your routine scan. -
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