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> IIRC, you don't need a rear-view mirror to drive (honestly take a look at a truck, it would be obstructed anyways...) Trucks, vans and other similar vehicles

> IIRC, you don't need a rear-view mirror to drive (honestly take a look at a truck, it would be obstructed anyways...) Trucks, vans and other similar vehicles have bigger (and possibly even multiple) side mirrors to compensate for the lack of a rear-view mirror. With regular cars, for minimising the blind spots to the left and right it's preferable to cover the rear area mainly with the rear-view mirror, so that the side mirrors can be focussed more to the sides instead of also having to cover the rear area. (Possibly all the more so in North America, where convex or aspheric mirrors with a bigger field of view are mostly forbidden, especially on the driver's side.)

mindslight 4y ago
A passenger vehicle has the same mirrors as a passenger vehicle towing a large trailer that blocks rearward views. The universally applicable requirement is to not move in a direction without checking that you can. "Blind spot" is mostly a euphemism for "spot I was too lazy to check". Hassling someone over something hanging from a rear view mirror seems like the epitome of arbitrary nanny state nonsense that undermines respect for law enforcement in general. Similar to unreasonably low speed limits that criminalize most every driver, and let police think that doing their job means sitting on the side of the road playing Candy Crush until the radar gun makes a noise, rather than doing the work of catching actual road hazards like semi trucks that block the left lane trying to pass while going uphill.