{"id":5483,"date":"2017-07-24T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/?p=5483"},"modified":"2020-01-21T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T18:33:08","slug":"how-often-should-you-check-your-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/how-often-should-you-check-your-mirrors\/","title":{"rendered":"How often should you check your mirrors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 100km\/h you&#8217;re travelling almost 28 metres a second. In five seconds you&#8217;ve travelled\u00a0almost 140 metres. The landscape has changed, you&#8217;ve been past intersections, other vehicles have changed lanes. Would that be a good time to check your mirrors, every 140 metres?<\/p>\n<p>Many advanced driving instructors say that you should quickly glance at all three mirrors (rearview, left wing mirror and right mirror) every five to eight seconds. A glance isn&#8217;t &#8216;studying&#8217; what&#8217;s in the mirror; it&#8217;s more a quick check that nothing untoward is happening. If you spend too long looking in your mirror you&#8217;re not looking ahead and that could mean you miss a developing hazard and cause an accident.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5489\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5489\" class=\"wp-image-5489 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dinosaur-in-wing-mirror-600x436.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dinosaur-in-wing-mirror-600x436.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dinosaur-in-wing-mirror-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dinosaur-in-wing-mirror.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The only reason not to look in your mirrors: future nightmares<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Of course, you will always be checking your mirror every time you indicate to change lanes or make a turn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/what-is-gap-selection-and-how-can-you-improve-your-skills\/\">just before you turn and just after you turn<\/a>, before you slow down, before you move away from the kerb and to check your makeup is looking fierce (just kidding about the last one).<\/p>\n<p>Glancing every five seconds or so gives you a really good mental map of what&#8217;s going on around you and means that if you need to change lanes quickly to avoid something that falls off a vehicle in front, you&#8217;ll have a very good idea whether there&#8217;s a vehicle next to you before you even have to look. You&#8217;ll also be aware of vehicles that were there but now mysteriously aren&#8217;t (are they in your blind spot, in which case you should be careful).<\/p>\n<p>If you are stopped at the end of a queue of traffic you should check your mirrors as vehicles approach you from behind so that you can ensure they&#8217;ve seen that you are stopped and are slowing down; the last thing you want is a nasty surprise as another vehicle smashes into you from behind.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u00a0are travelling below the speed limit, other vehicles will be catching you up. At 70km\/h, other vehicles travelling at 100km\/h are catching up with you by 40 metres every 5 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Checking your mirrors on the motorway will enable you to see motorbikes filtering through the traffic, and the same applies to cyclists when you&#8217;re on busy urban routes.<\/p>\n<p>If you think five seconds is too frequently, then at minimum you should be glancing in your mirrors every 8 seconds. \u00a0Experts recommend every 5-8 seconds. The other reason for this is our short-term memory which is shockingly bad the majority of the time. Most drivers won&#8217;t remember what they saw in their mirrors just 5 seconds after looking, mainly because they are also focusing on so many other things, so checking frequently tops up your memory of the surrounding traffic.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure that you are effectively checking your mirrors you need to be able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/how-to-adjust-your-wing-mirrors-correctly\/\">set up your car mirrors correctly<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 100km\/h you&#8217;re travelling almost 28 metres a second. In five seconds you&#8217;ve travelled\u00a0almost 140 metres. The landscape has changed, you&#8217;ve been past intersections, other vehicles have changed lanes. 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