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Grand_Kirby posted...

While leaning over? Or while sitting in your seat? Because that's the big difference.

Admittedly I feel like it's mainly older people who were taught to adjust their mirrors that original way and have just never updated. The new standard isn't really that new, it's been around since the mid-90s, but that's still too recent for a lot of people who have been driving for a long time, and they'll have a tendency to teach their children the way they were taught, so it's a gradual shift.

mostly the latter (which is what the article you linked describes? i didn't see the lean mentioned in it)

the lean may sound more 'strictly effective' but it has two potential practicality issues that pop up off the top of my head?

• if i'm leaning that far over the center console for the right mirror, i'm probably turning my hips already and at that point i can see into the blind spot without the mirror?
• if i'm leaning towards a mirror to use it, it means i have to move around to actually get into a position to use another mirror well. like you can't peek at the right and then the left quickly to get a sense of what's going on around you. you have to lean, look, lean over, look. that sounds slow and janky.