The blind spot in a vehicle is the area around the vehicle that cannot be directly observed by the driver while driving the vehicle.
Blind spot mirrors are also called as fish eye or convex mirrors which is installed on the outside mirrors of the vehicles. The blind spot mirror, usually circular shaped, is stuck on to the OVRM. The blind spot mirrors increase the visibility from inside the car. This is non-adjustable mirror and offers a small but wide view due to its convex shape.
The blind spot mirror is used in the car to show the driver the parts of the road that are otherwise hidden from the vision. It actually lets the driver keep track of the car lurking behind and helps in changing the lanes.
Benefits of blind spot mirror:
- Blind spot mirrors are made to offer additional visibility of pedestrians and cars that would be missed by the side mirror. It helps in turning, switching lanes or overtaking other cars.
- The blind spot mirror helps in keeping an eye on the vehicle behind as well as the vehicle right in front of the drive in traffic. This helps in driving safely and maintains a respectable distance between the vehicles.
- It helps in safely parking the car without bumping into the vehicle in the front or behind or other obstacles.
- It also helps in monitoring the children playing around and avoids any accidents. Blind spot mirrors help avoid accidents through rear and side vision.
Disadvantages of blind spot mirror
There are some important points to remember while sticking these small mirrors for a rearward vision.
- Blind spot gives a distorted rear vision. Though the mirror is added to increase the rearward field vision, it actually confuses the user since the eye takes extra time to adjust to reflection of the blind spot mirrors. The driver first have a glance at the normal mirror and then move to the blind spot, which will take longer time looking at the mirrors instead of the road.
- Useful reflection is restricted to the edge of blind spot mirrors, and it compress reflections towards the edge
- Side mirrors are designed to provide the best possible rear and side vision. So attaching the additional blind spot will take away the natural design of the mirror and render it far less useful and unsafe.
- Convex mirrors are not designed to absorb glare and harsh reflections. It does not have dimming or antiglare features. As a result it will give a painful experience driving during night.
- The blind spot are stuck to the OVRM using glue. While removing the blind spot there will be lot of problems as the adhesive used are stronger. Expensive solvent is required for removing the blind spot which will damage the paint finish on the car if not done carefully.
- Based on the points listed above, the blind spot instead of rendering more advantages, actually result in serious unsafe issues both during highway drive or city drive.