Expo mirror, researched and developed by Automobile Safety Foundation.
San Diego, CA -- In an accomplishment to save lives and abate the amount of cartage accompanying accidents acquired by a vehicle’s aphotic spot, the Automobile Safety Foundation (ASF), a non accumulation accumulation that researches and develops means to advance car assurance and abode safe active practices, is ablution its “Safe Mirrors Now!” attack in abutment of ancillary appearance mirrors advised to accommodate complete borderline appearance after ambit distortion.
As it is, accepted ancillary appearance mirrors, which burrow adjacent abutting cars in a aphotic across and bind drivers’ appearance while alteration lanes, are active in added than 413,000 (more than half) of the country’s 826,000 lane change accidents such as ancillary swipes, according to The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) and U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). For this reason, ASF maintains that it is alarming to absorb assimilate a freeway or change lanes cautiously with accepted accessories ancillary appearance mirrors.
With these blazon of accidents accounting for added than 160,000 injuries annually, the ASF has researched and developed the Expo mirror, accurately advised to access the capability of accepted ancillary appearance mirrors and advance on aftermarket arched mirror accessories. It aims in abbreviation a vehicle’s aphotic atom after authoritative it difficult to ahead ambit due to angel baloney inherent in its architecture (see illustrations below).
Additionally, ASF recommends aftermarket arched mirrors and mirror accessories such as the “Maxi View” Mirror (below center), accustomed by its architect to be the “world’s best aphotic atom mirror.” In accession to the array of aftermarket mirrors such as the Expo and the “Maxi View,” baddest auto manufactures, including some models of Ford and GM, with advance from ASF, are alpha to acquaint new, able and safer ancillary appearance mirrors (see below).
Furthering this effort, the ASF, through the Safe Mirrors Now!” campaign, aswell supports legislation, like that of the European Parliament and Council’s new charge on rear appearance mirrors and added aberrant eyes systems for motor vehicles, which is advised to advance alley user assurance by advance the achievement of rear appearance mirrors and accelerating the addition of new technologies that access the acreage of aberrant eyes for drivers of commuter cars, buses and trucks.
The ASF acclaim that all drivers access a acceptable aphotic atom mirror such as the Maxi View Mirror or Expo Mirror, while aswell auspicious the NHTSA and auto maker to crop the all-important accomplish to apparatus alleviative architecture changes in approaching models’ mirrors. In abutment of this recommendation, the NHTSA’s “Field Test Evaluation of Rearview Mirror Systems for Commercial Vehicles” (DOT HS 806 948), showed that cars with accepted collapsed commuter ancillary mirrors are about 83% added acceptable to be complex in an abstract as compared to blind-spot absolute mirrors agnate to the Expo and Maxi View.
Founded in 1988, the Automobile Safety Foundation is an absolute 501 (c) (3) non profit, alignment that researches and develops means to advance car assurance while acclamation accessible active acquaintance and auto assurance issues. Although the ASF does not serve companies or clandestine absorption organizations, the foundation encourages government agencies and auto articles akin to accept regulations and accessories in abutment of car and disciplinarian safety, including alien airbags, shock arresting seats, safe mirrors that abate and/or annihilate aphotic spots, hands-free cellular and ache arrangement technologies, as able-bodied as addition fuels. ASF seeks and welcomes manufacturers, ally and investors for the ASF Expo Mirror, which is accessible for assurance apprenticeship programs and promotional use. For added advice about the foundation’s efforts, or to ask about Safe Mirror Now! Campaign advocacy opportunities and accomplish a donation, amuse appointment www.carsafe.org or alarm 858.831.1871. You can aswell address the Automobile Safety Foundation at P.O. Box 12183 La Jolla, CA 92039-2183.
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