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Old 09-19-2013, 11:18 AM   #12
DevonK
 
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Really? People can't see the value of this, especially on a low-slung car like a Vette? It's pretty obvious to anyone who drives in traffic on a freeway where other cars can block your view of someone's turn signals.

A scenario: Say there is someone beside you on the freeway (passenger side) and you are accelerating ahead of him and want to move to his lane. Half a car length ahead of him on his right, another car also going faster than him has signaled that he is going to enter the lane to his left -- right where you plan to go. If he does not have turn indicators on his mirrors you are not going to know that because you can't see his other turn signals - they are blocked by the car to your immediate right. The result has a small chance of being quite nasty if one or both of you are driving aggressively.

Another thing - the Euro standards require better side mirrors, the ones on the NA Vette are far too tiny given the atrocious rear visibility on this car--they should really be illegal.
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