There are many ways to overtake. Here we will discuss the blind spot overtaking technique.
Blind Spots
Blind spots are the areas aren’t captured in mirrors. We cannot get rid of all the blind spots in our cars. What we can do is, only adjust the mirrors to minimize the blind spots and turn our heads to see what’s around before making a move.
Most people adjust their mirrors as they can see the sides of the car. It’s wrong. The correct way to adjust the driver’s side mirror is, lean your head all the way to touch the window and adjust the side mirror until the car disappears and you see the next lane. You don’t need to see the car; you need to see the lane next to you. Do the same to your passenger side. Lean to the centre point of the car from driver’s seat and adjust the passenger side mirror. This setup gives you more view. If you don’t do this and keep your side mirrors in closed position as you can see your own car, then you are just duplicating what your rearview mirror already showing you. And as for the rearview mirror adjust it as further as you can see right behind you while giving more view to the driver’s side.
Blind Spot Overtaking
This is a good overtaking technique. This is the spot/line which you disappear from the field of vision of the car infront of you. To the lame eye It looks like you’re just following the inside line. But what you do is you enter the blind spot in your opponent’s view, while trimming the distance to the shortest, and bleed over to the opponent’s line. The point of using the blind spot before the overtake is to be able to pull alongside your opponent to set up the pass. If it’s timed right other driver would have hard time preventing it because you have taken him by the element of surprise. Further you can extend this technique to use gutter or banking to give more rake to overtaking and bleed into opponent’s line.
Watch these two videos to get an idea.
Video Credit: Driver61
Thank you.