Get a hardtop. Night and day as far as visibility. With my HT and MUZ mirror I feel a lot better.

 

No blind spot... but I never have the top up....

 

as VoIPA said.
I did an advanced driver training course recently. The instructer said the same thing. If you are looking over your shoulder, you cannot see what is happening on the road in front.

You don't need to see the side of your car in the mirrors. For the miniscule amount of time that you are actually parking your car and need to see the side of your car, leave the mirrors where they are and move your head.

 

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yep huge blind spot. I have to use both mirrors and also really lean to my left to make sure there are no cars. Sometimes I get the feeling that theres a motorcylce right there and bam but hasn't happened yet!

 

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For an extra quarter, the $2 convex mirrors come in an adjustable version. I have mine adjusted all the way to the left, which focuses it directly on the blind spot. When someone is there, they are invisible in my regular mirror, while appearing centered and relatively large in the spot mirror.

I like retaining the regular mirror on the left because of the "looming" effect that the reflected images have. It gives me a direct estimate of the distance to following cars without having to translate for a convex image.

The loss of image space to the convex spot mirror is minor because I put it in the area that shows my own car anyway. Every driver's guide I've ever seen recommends that you set your mirror to see a bit of your own car.

And yes, the small, low side windows and large fabric tops (especially with the glass rear windows) create a significant blind spot, especially if you sit high in the car. The relatively panoramic glass in the hardtop improves things for me in the winter time, but does not eliminate the blind spot .

 

Go with Muz. This should be everyones first Mod!

 

That because many drivers do not know how to adjust/use their side-view mirrors. I was directly behind many cars and I could see the driver's face in their left side mirror, and that was wrong. Rear-view mirror for seeing the cars in the rear, side-view mirrors for seeing the cars on the sides, not in the rear. VoIPA is correct in setting your mirrors: "You want to adjust it out so that as the car to your left is leaving your rear view mirror, you can see the front of that car in the left side mirror" and adjust the same for right side miror.

I always looking at all mirrors every few seconds to know all traffics around me, so that whenever I need to change lane I would take a look at side-view mirror right after looking at rear-view mirror to know if it was safe to change lane.

 

I personally like seeing the edge of my own car in my side view mirrors because that gives me a point of reference. When changing lanes, I just lean forward slightly and look to the side. Doing so lets me see the entire blind spot without any problem.