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No, it's not for safety reason; they seem to have a new technology or manufacture that now has a noticeable boarder. I noticed that it's way more aggressive in dimming, than the F-series mirrors.
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It makes sense for safety: You might not notice a car with high beams behind, if the whole mirror is blacked out. With the border excluded, you would notice the car with the high beams as the border will shine, but when you look at your mirror you can still see it in the dark area. |
Well, I can't prove otherwise but personally don't find the natural boarder very useful  : |
This!
Also, the mirrors aren't so dim that I can't see what's going on. Comments like that remind me of the thread started by the member who complained about not being able to see the right-side curb from the driver's seat.
P.S. Not having a CD slot sucks too. I'm one of those guys who still listens to CD's (... or at least rips them into the internal hard drive). |
You make me sound like such a noob that have no idea how auto-dimmers works. I'm on my 4th BMW with this feature; I was speaking from experience, with myself and other who have driven my vehicles and commented on the lack of visibility.
Yes, for the most part, at night, you can still see most objects from the side mirror; It's not obvious how aggressive it dims, unless you have a car with its bright headlights right behind you. It's not the end of the world, I just brush it off as one of those compromises but I was merely pointing that this might be the reason all manufactures have eliminated dimming from the passenger side mirror, on all North American-bound vehicles.
Inferring how they dropped it from even their most top-tier vehicle's, I assumed it was for visibility reasons and liability but that's just an assumption. If you have a better reason, shoot.
Also, enjoy your CDs while you still can; my stepdad purchased a new Acura RDX recently and almost cried that it didn't have a CD player to blast his Streisand albums anymore.. Until I introduced him to a music steaming APP.
It sometimes takes only one incident before someone change the rules or begin erring on the side of safety, for instance:
https://www.kidsandcars.org/2018/05/...-in-every-car/ |
Omg that story is my absolute nightmare.