Do you think it would be possible in the future for car companies to design a "blind spot" free vehicle?

Question

just curious of opinions.

Answer 1

Yeah of course. Anything is possible (well not everything. I know that we will never have a time machine). I scanned an article in this one magazine and they were working on a invisible car by reflecting light waves some how!

Answer 2

I think they'd call it a 'convertible'...with the top down of course.

Answer 3

they cant even get better fuel economy let alone better blind spot technology!

Answer 4

There are no "blind spots". There are however drivers who don't look where they are going. A simple turn of the head toward the lane you want to move into will always reveal more than any mirror can show.

Answer 5

MY car has no blind spots because I bought two of those stick-on bubble mirrors and put them on my existing mirrors. PRESTO! no more close calls or unseen cars.

Answer 6

For the record, there are not blind spots on passenger cars, there are just driver's that do not know how to adjust their rearview mirrors!  However, given most people don't know how to do this or too lazy to set them right, their is a new invention that will be sold starting next week.  Jaguar is offering a new car cold the XF.  It has an innovative blind spot monitor that lights an amber light in the appropriate mirror when a vehicle is in the area most people consider the blind spot.  Also, Infiniti has recently introduced the EX-35 compact SUV with a lcd screen that projects a full 360 degree view around the vehicle.  It is the same view you would have if an airplane was looking down on your vehicle.  Hope this helps.

Answer 7

Why wait for the future, they have one now.  It is called a motorcycle.

Answer 8

If they used cameras and they have sensors that will detect something in your blind spot, but with only mirrors it's impractical if not impossible.

Answer 9

I believe the technology exists TODAY to design such a vehicle, but since the law does not demand it, and consumers are not asking for it, the auto manufacturers not catering to a market that does not exist.  Perhaps they could create such a market, which would give the first brand name to do so, an edge, for a year, until the competition also does so.

So long as what we see back there is based on mirrors down side of car, bus, truck, etc., and mirror pointed through rear view window, there will be blind spots.

There can be computer sensors on outside of vehcile feeding into a total vision all directions.  I would not want the mirrors to go away until this is perfected.  I would want this initially to be used for smart car warning systems.

Answer 10

They already have vehicles like this, try this site.

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/