On May 19, 8:29 am, datakoll wrote:
yeah. The inside truck move is danegrous, tobe avoided...in a van...Europa/Mini...bicycle ? points for the trucker-no pints for the cyclist.

The Ford van's mirrors are concave. Concave collect max light. Wanna see a AAA sunset ? use the mirrors.

And a hemispherical mirror set into the concave...at your eye level soas yawlm doahn need to make 2 eye motions to see what...and practice or warmup before going thru LA. The concaves brin gpassing vehicles close to the van body when the passers are in 'reality' several feet further away. Is jumpy

A solution I use is a TV camera from Audiovox. Itsa backup camera....the market was flooded at Sonic Electronix and Crutchfield. The backup without radar is a super camera moubatble on the passengers side pointing front for Baja's narrow MEX 1 or backward or down for mountain driving caws

THE SWITCHBACK INSIDE IS UNSEEABLE Impossible and treacherous.

NEVER PASS A TRUCK CLOSE IN. The deal with a van even is pull ahead so the truck sees you or stay behind.

That's truck courteasy. Truck goes first. Always. Global Warming.

Big trucks are cool for maneuvering around in that they can't make
changes (go where they're not) as suddenly as smaller vehicles -
they're more relatively fixed in time and space. I remember vividly
this (see ~midde paragraph about stuffing it to the inside of the big
truck):

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...0437c0e646734a

.... and:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...934f48f043d1db

Flying into that hole, my situational awareness includes the laws of
physics ("assess the geometry and
motion"), which told me there was no way for that truck to fill that
hole in my universe. Of course, if I'd lost it making the turn, could
have been lights out for sure.