A Farewell to Blind Spots?
Before smartphones conquered childhood, motor vehicles were the most fascinating thing young children could experience. Your baby cousin is a dad now, and his children watch the “Baby Shark” video on an endless loop just like yours do, but when he was three years old, a good 25 percent of his vocabulary consisted of the names of vehicles and vehicle parts. He could identify a car’s steering wheel, dashboard, windshield wipers, seatbelts, tail pipe, tires, and more. Many of his peers could do the same. It is not until you learn to drive that you become aware of a most elusive car part, namely the car’s blind spot. When you are out driving with your friend who has just gotten a driver’s license, and your friend gets in a fender bender, she calls her parents and tearfully exclaims, “The other driver was in my blind spot!” You silently tell yourself that you will remember this line and use it when you get your driver’s license and get into a fender bender of your own. You aren’t sure what a blind spot is. You have never seen one, but they certainly seem to cause a lot of accidents. New vehicle technology aims to eliminate blind spots from the driving experience, but as of 2025, blind spots contribute to plenty of accidents. If you have been injured in a car accident where another driver was in your car’s blind spot, contact a Fort Lauderdale auto accident attorney.
What are Blind Spots, and How Do They Contribute to Car Accidents?
When you are not driving, your car has no blind spots. Furthermore, the location and size of a car’s blind spots depend on who is driving. A blind spot is any part of the road in front of, beside, or behind your car that you cannot see directly or through your car’s mirrors while you are driving, usually because part of the car’s frame is blocking your view. Adjusting your mirrors properly reduces the size of your blind spots. Being tall helps, too.
Student Driver’s Invention Could Enable a Blind Spot-Free Drive
Newly manufactured cars have sensors that enable the car to detect obstacles that you cannot see because they are in your blind spot. Meanwhile, a high school student won a prize in 2019 for a blind spot-eliminating invention. Alaina Gassler of Pennsylvania submitted a winning entry in the form of a camera mounted on the car’s blind spot to show drivers everything they were missing, effectively giving them a panoramic view of the road. They say that necessity is the mother of invention, so perhaps Gassler’s motivation to make this invention was the constant comments from her driver’s ed teacher about adjusting her position while driving so that she could see what was in her blind spots.
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A personal injury lawyer can help you if you suffered injuries arising from a car accident where a car was in your blind spot. Contact Boone & Davis in Fort Lauderdale, Florida or call 954-566-919 to explore your potential recovery options today.
Source:
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