27-01-2017, 03:12 PM
(27-01-2017, 01:12 PM)Sparks Wrote: I never suggested that the blind spot caused by the rear view mirror caused me a problem!
Bob, I think that this is where our opinions differ. When I am driving I'm looking, primarily, straight ahead through the windscreen and I'm hardly aware of the mirror, so it doesn't count as a blind spot to me.
However, if I glance upwards to use the mirror then it most definitely is not a blind spot!
I had one of those 'spot the dots' tests a few years ago - possibly when the cataracts were developing - and my memory of it is that it was predominantly a test of lateral, rather than vertical visual acuity.
As for motorway driving, I once drove up the M11 in thick fog at 70mph and couldn't have been safer! I never found out what happened but I can only assume that someone had an accident somewhere behind me that completely blocked the carriageway because I became aware that there was just me, the motorway and the fog - nothing else!
The only other vehicles on the road were slow moving lorries and I found, with a little experimentation, that if I saw a shadow appear in the fog ahead of me that I had more than enough room to stop if necessary. So, 70mph in lane 1, take my foot of the gas if I saw a shadow ahead, check that there was nothing creeping up behind me then overtake the lorry when it materialised, back to Lane 1 and repeat.
I can honestly say I never had a safer, more relaxing drive up the M11 either before or since - including at 3 and 4 in the morning, when it can be remarkably busy.
