Tegger wrote:
>
> A heavy truck is not the same as a passenger car. A heavy truck's
> mirrors are much larger, for one thing, and for another it's impossible
> to provide a rear window in a 53' trailer (or in a sleeper-cab tractor).
> Plus trucks cannot perform the sort of sudden maneuvers that cars can.

Trucks sometimes have to perform sudden maneuvers to avoid the idiots
that don't know how to operate their cars safely.

> Passenger-car side mirrors are meant to be aimed into the side blind-spots
> not covered by your forward peripheral vision or by the rear-view
> mirror.
> Here's a pretty good explanation of passenger-car side-view-mirror
> aiming I found using Google:
> <http://www.linquist.net/motorsports/tech/mirrors/>

Side mirrors are the way to go when keeping track of what is going on
around your vehicle. That's the bottom line and people should be open to
learning more from the other's personal experience gained over the years.