Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:I have a very simple rule for door mirrors, and no matter how I try and set them up for other purposes while stationary, I always return to it:
On a multi-lane road, in whichever lane I am, I want to see the edge of the adjacent lane in the bottom corner of the appropriate mirror. So in the middle lane of a motorway, I would have two white lines streaming out of the bottom corners of each door mirror.
I can set up the mirrors while stationary to allow me to park, or other similar task, but once out on the open road, I'm not happy until I've returned them to the position mentioned above.
What we need then are mirrors that can be pre-programmed to cover two situations:
One caters for normal driving as you've just described, and the other setting caters for low speed manoeuvres like parking. These alignments should be capable of being preset by the driver at the touch of a button or a single switch. In fact they could be made responsive to the speed of the vehicle, with the changeover point being something like 5 or 10 mph.
I don't know why dimwit car designers can't provide that sort of feature instead of foisting overly complex and unwanted crap on us.