Driving with Side-mirror Folded

[Marinna]

Sorry I don't see your point at all. You can manually put the vehicle in 1st gear and drive down the highway and break all kinds of things, you can drive down the road with the rear hatch open and things in the back would fall out, you can use a brick to keep the accelerator at a certain speed instead of using cruise control, you can drive down the road with the hood partially shut with the safety catch instead of shutting it all the way, which would surely end up in a wreck, you can put mismatched tires on and probably damage a lot of components, you can drive down the road with the mirrors folded................... The point being Toyota didn't specifically design it to allow you to do any of them........ but why in the world would you do any of those things.

They do actually. They have to go all the way to install sensor in the mirror so console knows the mirror is folded and they program the display view from outside in a different layout. That is very very explicitly allowing driver to do so. Otherwise it should be a warning instead like when you forget to close your door. This is probably not during normal driving conditions but it is very much within the design scope without a question.

 

[NoMe cruiser]

I remember when the floor mats on certain Toyotas would get stuck on gas pedals and there were several accidents and maybe even deaths caused by it. The owners manual never told these drivers to put the car in “N” in the event the throttle stayed stuck wide open.

 

[JSFoster75]

You would thought 5% is small, until you see how many people waiting in the long line at Costco just to save that much, often it is even less. People is willing to run LC with regular gas to save less than 5%
My goal is not to save gas but try to understand why Toyota allows this, what is the use case they had in mind, and if I can be more efficient why not? To be honest that camera under the mirror looks like a 360 to me. They can easily accommodate the mirror angle and retain all ADAS feature. So it is really about “why” Toyota would allow mirror to be folded at high speed

Do you really want corporate nannies babysitting every driver? I wouldn't want my car to be disabled because the mirror got damaged or needed to be folded in for some random reason. The main reason that instantly comes to mind is driving it through a car wash... I always fold them in to drive through a car was so they aren't damaged going through it.

 

[t3lcfe]

Do you really want corporate nannies babysitting every driver? I wouldn't want my car to be disabled because the mirror got damaged or needed to be folded in for some random reason. The main reason that instantly comes to mind is driving it through a car wash... I always fold them in to drive through a car was so they aren't damaged going through it.

Hahah hot topic for some reasons
Happy LC, everyone

 

[ChrisMA1B]

At night in heavy traffic, I just angle the mirrors down electronically and the cars behind me do not shine their lights in my eyes. A safety thing. The side traffic sensor lights on the mirrors tells me that something is in my blind spots, Nice feature.

 

[Skidaddl]

You would thought 5% is small, until you see how many people waiting in the long line at Costco just to save that much, often it is even less. People is willing to run LC with regular gas to save less than 5%
My goal is not to save gas but try to understand why Toyota allows this, what is the use case they had in mind, and if I can be more efficient why not? To be honest that camera under the mirror looks like a 360 to me. They can easily accommodate the mirror angle and retain all ADAS feature. So it is really about “why” Toyota would allow mirror to be folded at high speed

The reason Toyota allows it is for off roading in tight spaces when inches count.

 

[MJE]

Anything Toyota doesn't explicitly prevent me from doing means they have implicitly encouraged me to do the thing.

USA!

If I didn’t know better I’d think y’all are driving on the freeway here.

 

[TakaraLC]

This is what happened when I park with and without mirror folding. Definitely intentional since they even bother to change the display and use the sensor to detect the angel change.

I find it somewhat useful. But this is for low speed though. Doesn’t explain high speed use still
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This is for offroad use. It assumes you closed the mirrors because there is something very close that the mirrors can hit. Hence the display is showing the side cameras so that the driver can get additional info about how close the said object is to the body below the mirrors.

It is against your point of using this being designed to be used highway speeds since the camera display turns off at speeds above 10MPH or so.

 

[Marinna]

This is for offroad use. It assumes you closed the mirrors because there is something very close that the mirrors can hit. Hence the display is showing the side cameras so that the driver can get additional info about how close the said object is to the body below the mirrors.

It is against your point of using this being designed to be used highway speeds since the camera display turns off at speeds above 10MPH or so.

I found almost all the adas feature still works with mirror folded. Not saying it is a good idea (or bad) just you can totally still drive your car with little issues

 

[t3lcfe]

Wow! the discussion of side mirrors folded while driving is still hot going ?

 

[TakaraLC]

I found almost all the adas feature still works with mirror folded. Not saying it is a good idea (or bad) just you can totally still drive your car with little issues

I mean most of the features would also work if you took one wheel of and drive on 3.

 

[Marinna]

I mean most of the features would also work if you took one wheel of and drive on 3.

I doubt that but please give it a try and video record it. I do want to see how it works out.

 

[gvan1998]

You can also remove all 4 doors and drive. Just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should. It's common sense.