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In some areas keeping things hanging from the rear view mirror is a ticket offense because it limits the driver’s visibility. Those with handicap cards are suppose to remove then when driving and hang them when parking. I know this isn’t how it works in reality. As a fresh graduate from high school I had my graduation tassels on my mirror. Occasionally I also had an air freshener on the mirror because my job flipping burgers made my car smell like the food I cooked. Nothing hangs on my mirror when I’m driving. Being in south Louisiana I regularly see women driving with a bunch of Mardi Gras beads hanging from their mirror along with various charms attached to a chain or some dead relative’s photo on a string.
For those who say you’re a bad or distracted driver if you’re looking at other drivers, you are wrong. When watching the road you’re suppose to pay attention to what’s going on around you and that includes other drivers. Where is the driver looking, is the driver holding their phone, is the driver drinking from something in a brown paper bag, is the driver visibly angry or agitated, or even is the driver asleep or having a medical emergency. This doesn’t require fully staring at the driver to the exclusion of everything else around you. This means keeping the driver’s head within your range of vision of the road ahead and seeing everything going on around you.
Safe driving means being responsive to movement in your peripheral vision. That is impeded of you place objects in your field of view that are frequently swinging back and forth. Constantly crying Wolf.
For those who say you’re a bad or distracted driver if you’re looking at other drivers, you are wrong. When watching the road you’re suppose to pay attention to what’s going on around you and that includes other drivers. Where is the driver looking, is the driver holding their phone, is the driver drinking from something in a brown paper bag, is the driver visibly angry or agitated, or even is the driver asleep or having a medical emergency. This doesn’t require fully staring at the driver to the exclusion of everything else around you. This means keeping the driver’s head within your range of vision of the road ahead and seeing everything going on around you.
Anything that distracts you from driving is unsafe, and that includes looking at other drivers. You should keep your eyes on the road and traffic, pedestrians, and so on, but if moving not on the person inside the vehicle. It is not at the driver that you should look at, but at the vehicles in traffic. Now, if you want to look at other drivers, do so when not moving, although some drivers may not like being looked at
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