How to avoid the blind angle of visibility

The blind spot of the car or blind angle of visibility is a dangerous area that we can not reach with our eyes using the rearview mirror. It is the area that occupies at a certain moment a car that is overtaking us on the right. As you can imagine, it supposes a serious risk of lateral collision in the event that we start overtaking just when another car that is passing us is at this dead point. To help you travel safely by car, at .com we explain how to avoid the blind angle of visibility.

Steps to follow:

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The most effective way to avoid this blind spot of the car is not to overtake impulsively. Thus, before moving to the right lane to overtake, we must check several times through the central and side mirror that no car is occupying this area of the road to pass us. If you do this check a couple of times or three before overtaking, you will give time for a car that is in your blind angle of visibility to leave it and see it.

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On the other hand, for greater safety at the time of avoiding the blind angle of visibility, you can resort to slightly and quickly turn your head to the right to check directly that there is no car in this area, without having to resort to mirrors . This maneuver entails risk in the sense that for a few seconds you will lose the frontal vision zone, but it can be understood as a lesser evil when its purpose is to verify that there is no car in the blind spot when we are going to start an overtaking maneuver.

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At this point, it is necessary to indicate that during the march, even if you are not going to make an overtaking, you should check frequently the rear-view mirrors, both the central and lateral, since you are not only interested in knowing what happens before you on the road, but it is also very important that you know what happens with the cars that follow you. Thus, if you are forced to make a sudden maneuver, such as a sudden braking or an unexpected overtaking, you will know if you have a car behind that can collide with you and, consequently, how to act in the best way to produce the lesser evil.

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Returning to the question of how to avoid the blind angle of visibility, technological advances are there to help us out. Thus, some manufacturers begin to incorporate the so-called Hicks mirror, which has a curvature such that it allows covering a greater angle of vision than traditional mirrors.

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Video cameras, radars or systems based on ultrasound sensors are more advanced technological solutions that some car manufacturers are developing and that, little by little, they are incorporating in their models with the objective of avoiding the blind angle of visibility that they can not cover the rear view mirrors.

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However, until these innovations are not widespread, the most useful thing is that you are very attentive to traffic with constant checks to the rear view mirrors while driving. It is also basic that, before starting the march, you place them correctly. The center must allow you to see as much as possible of the back moon. On the other hand, to place the left side you must stick to the driver's window and place it so that you see the minimum of the body of the car through it and the rest of the vision is for the road. Located in the central part of the car, the right rear-view mirror should offer you the same visual information: a minimum of the body and, the rest, the road.