ElectricLee
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Shocked! Starhopper has no blind spot detection! How do you land this thing? Congrats to SpaceX!
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Obviously. Did you not look at my avatar??
Shocked! Starhopper has no blind spot detection! How do you land this thing? Congrats to SpaceX!
Where did you get this mirror? Love it.I feel like I could write too much on this topic, so I will try to be concise...
Personally, I added a frameless mirror to my driver's side mirror and LOVE it. I have actually decided to move my mirror positions away from the recommended standard because of the addition. Let me explain (let me first put on my flame proof suit). The driver's side mirror isn't convex (no "wide" angle). Most are not because they make the cars look farther. So when you position the drivers side mirror properly so that it points to the "blindspot", the very small and aerodynamic mirror only points to a very small and narrow spot. This is really what drove me to add another small mirror. I wanted to see more than this little spot. I wanted to see next to me AND even the lane next to that. While a properly positioned mirror will tell you if someone is in your blindspot, it will NOT tell you if someone is moving from 2 lanes over into your blindspot. It also won't tell you if someone traveling very fast is about to be in your blindspot unless you caught them in your rear view mirror. So now that I've added the wide angle frameless mirror, I am moving my side mirror to no longer point completely at the small blindspot, but rather I'm pulling it in slightly to allow me to see further back and closer to my car (I am leaving a tad of my vehicle side in the frame). But with the addition of the convex mirror I still can identify my blindspot AND cars 2 lanes over. It's perfect and now I feel more confident that I can see the 3 things that scare me :
- Tesla's implementation of blind spot detection while an admirable effort, has a lot to be desired. The biggest deficiency is the requirement to look to the forward center of the car for blindspot information
- IMO the BSD feature is a result of the engineering team having a low priority for this because, per Elon, you won't need it with FSD. I'm pretty sure this is evidenced by how long ago the model 3 was actually designed and the FSD forecast back then
- Without FSD to solve all of problems we are now nitpicking these shortcomings
- I find the screen information very good and helpful for lane changes, it's just not where I want to be looking when I'm changing lanes. I think if you try to turn into a car it will both give you audible warnings AND try to stop you, correct?
- There are reasonable work arounds if waiting for something better or different isn't satisfactory
Here's a picture of the frameless mirror BEFORE I repositioned it
- Blindspot
- Fast approaching cars
- Cars coming over from 2 lanes away
Where did you get this mirror? Love it.
Exit: never mind, I see you got them from Abstract Ocean.
I have typically installed the small convex mirrors on the outermost corner too. On the model 3 I noticed that because the mirror is inset so deep in the housing it both limited how far I could actually see AND displayed a lot of housing in the field of view. So I installed in the best place specifically for the model 3 IMO.i have something like that from amazon except I put mine at the outermost corner of both mirrors. Never hurts to have a little extra mirror protection while they work on improving the blind spot chime thingy
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZLPABGC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Pretty much every day I drive my Model 3 I wish it had rear RADAR and blind-spot mirrors to accompany it. It’s just not gonna happen, sadly.
You are indeed a poster with a sharp eye and impeccable taste.Is that a classic Cuban sammich in your avatar photo? Damn that looks delicious!
Don't you lose the heated mirrors and auto dimming by doing so? Too much of a risk for colder climates...Like I mentioned before, I went with Suma Performance Mirrors, love them.. no more issues with blind spots, has to be #1 on my list of accessories.
Fred
They have the defogger function. They don’t have the auto-dim function (probably due to price), but they’re tinted blue to reduce glare.Don't you lose the heated mirrors and auto dimming by doing so? Too much of a risk for colder climates...
The SR+ is wired to the Mirrors but not turned on. Probably software locked. I’m perfectly fine without it.Don't you lose the heated mirrors and auto dimming by doing so? Too much of a risk for colder climates...
The SR+ is wired to the Mirrors but not turned on. Probably software locked.
Show me where to turn that on, my mirrors never fogged up, San Diego.Does this mean no heated mirrors on the SR+? Surely that can't be right?
Thanks @Wennfred!Like I mentioned before, I went with Suma Performance Mirrors, love them.. no more issues with blind spots, has to be #1 on my list of accessories. Fred
I figured this out on my own when I first started driving in the '80's and have never understood how people thought being able to see the side of their car was helpful in any way — "I know what my car looks like, I wanna know where everyone else is around me" is what I'd always say when 'mirror alignment' came up as a topic (99.9% of the people who I've shared cars with or have used do it wrong.) I have never had an accident related to blindspots.Yes, I hav't driven a car with blind spots in YEARS. It is amazing that almost no one knows this. I never meet anyone that has their mirrors adjust correctly and when I tell them they think I'm wrong because they can't see their fenders and can't get used to it.