Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to Why EURO-Spec Cars are SAFER Than American Cars..." video.

  1. License plates have ONE FUNCTION, IDENTIFY THE VEHICLE REGISTRATION NUMBER. No decorative function is intended in clearly identifying the vehicle. If the owner wishes to highlight dome feature of their state/city of tesidence by sll means add other signage/labeling on the vehicle. But for purpose of clear identity for legal purposes in traffic breaches/accident tracing the number plates MUST be unambiguous, clear to read over reasonable distance, not made obscured by fancy colouring and/or patterns preventing and/or causing misidentifying the specific vehicle. As far as flat mirror versus convex, the mirror has a primary function of letting the driver be aware of surrounding traffic and obstacles. The flat mirror fails dismally as it shows far too little of the near area around the sides leaving blind spots with critical areas hidden. Thecargument about convex altering the apparent distances, that is ONLY a matter of learning. If a driver has learned driving with convex mirrors there is NO confusion at all. Only a driver having only 'Flat' mirror experience has an issue when seeing the view of a convex mirror. For those drivers it is a matter of relearning and adapting to the new perspective view. Given mere weeks, the convex view becomes normal and many scrapes and dings become less likely by no longer having such critical blind spots. A further mirror issue is placing the mirror at the door edge is also detrimental. Japan and many other Asian countries require the mirror to be on the front fenders, in direct view for the driver within the view of road ahead and giving clear view of the entire rearward side area view of the vehicle, without needing sideways turned view to see the mirror imsge taking the drivers attention totslly away from the looking ahead. Many traffic dings like rear ending cars ahead are due to drivers spending precious seconds glancing at the door located mirrors, away from and not on road ahead.
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