How To Avoid Blind spots While Driving

Video Transcript

"My name is Kevin Woods on behalf of expertvillage.com; phone number is (314) 584-0116. Right now we are going to talk about blind spots. Actually there is 8 blind spots around the car. There is two up front, two on the right side, two behind you and two on your left side. Basically when you are checking blind spots you want to physically turn around and check. You would trust your physical eyes more so than you would trust these two mirrors. Do not use your side mirrors to determine rather or not you are getting ready to change lanes. They did a study about 5 years ago and what they determined was too many younger people were either the cause of the accident or causing deaths in changing lanes. So what they came up with is on the road test from now on you have to physically check your blind spots and if you do not consistently check your blind spot once you are changing lanes, they more than likely will not pass you. Anytime the wheel goes to the left or to the right changing lanes, ensure that you physically turn around for a second. It's not long, you're not turning slow and not turning too fast nor are you staring at anything you just turn around and try to see if there is something coming. You don't want to look right over your shoulder. You actually want to turn around to see where a car is coming from."