While driving a passenger car, what should you see in properly-adjusted external mirrors ("rear-view mirrors")?
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Correct answer
B. The area behind the car and the sides of the car.
Explanation
In correctly adjusted exterior mirrors of a passenger car, you should see the area behind the vehicle and the sides of the vehicle - answer B. The sides of the car alone (A) do not show the traffic, and only the adjacent lane (C) is not enough to judge what is happening directly behind you.
The Regulation on the technical conditions of vehicles requires a passenger car to be equipped with mirrors that give the driver the rear view necessary for road safety - exterior mirrors and an interior mirror; in newer cars there are exterior mirrors on both sides. You adjust an exterior mirror so that the side of the car takes up only a narrow strip at the inner edge of the mirror, and the rest is filled by the road and the adjacent lane; vertically, the horizon should be roughly in the middle. Mirrors adjusted in this way reduce the blind spot, but they do not remove it, which is why before changing lanes you also glance over your shoulder.
Legal basis: § 11 para. 1 point 5 and 5a of the Regulation on the technical conditions of vehicles and the scope of their necessary equipment