One thing to mention is that car manufacturers do hyper-optimize for official safety tests, so I consider the fact that any car manufacturers bother doing this even though it’s not on the safety test to be a very big point in its favor, and the fact that most of them don’t to be neutral.
I don’t think mirrors are considered in safety tests at all. My understanding is that the only requirement is that you meet the tech specs defined in Section 571.111 - Standard No. 111; Rearview mirrors.. These are all physical properties like the size, mounting and reflectivity. The regulations don’t require cars to have additional convex mirrors, so I think it’s unsurprising that car manufacturers mostly don’t bother to provide them.
One thing to mention is that car manufacturers do hyper-optimize for official safety tests, so I consider the fact that any car manufacturers bother doing this even though it’s not on the safety test to be a very big point in its favor, and the fact that most of them don’t to be neutral.
So the mirrors only show the collision angles that are actually used in the officially approved safety tests?
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I don’t think mirrors are considered in safety tests at all. My understanding is that the only requirement is that you meet the tech specs defined in Section 571.111 - Standard No. 111; Rearview mirrors.. These are all physical properties like the size, mounting and reflectivity. The regulations don’t require cars to have additional convex mirrors, so I think it’s unsurprising that car manufacturers mostly don’t bother to provide them.