DRIVING DIRECTIONS: Ross Bentley's Speed Secrets

DRIVING DIRECTIONS: Ross Bentley's Speed Secrets

Speed Secrets: Time to Reflect on Mirror Usage

If you can see your own car, you can’t see someone else’s.

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Ross Bentley
Nov 03, 2024
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Every now and then I hop into the driver’s seat of someoneʻs car and wonder why the side mirrors are adjusted the way they are. I can’t help but ask, “Why do you need to see the side of your own car? Has it ever run into itself?”

Way back in the 1980’s, there was a paper published by the SAE (Society of Automobile Engineers) that described the method for…

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