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Study Regarding Visibility Geometry in Vehicles’ Rear-View Mirrors
CONAT12/CONAT20161033

Authors

Alexandru Ionut Radu, Corneliu Cofaru, Bogdan Tolea and Daniel Dragos Trusca
Transylvania University of Brasov, Romania

Horia Beles
University of Oradea, Romania

Abstract

This paper has proposed to study the vehicles visibility in the rear-view mirrors and how it influences driving on multilane roads. Two automotive road vehicles were studied, a small city vehicle and a much larger saloon vehicle, their visibility angles in the mirrors were measured and the blind spots were identified. Also, a simple method of correctly adjusting the mirrors is presented to reduce blind spots as much as possible.

Keywords: mirrors, vehicle, visibility, blind, spot, angle

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