Probably depends on where you drive. Although LA is not as bad as Miami, IMO, you drive differently! In Miami you assume everyone will cut you off and you don't signal your intent with a directional signal! In my experience driving in LA (daughter and 3 grandchildren live in Upland) driving at or near the speed limit is also not typical.
When I use I95 to travel into town here in SC it's not very crowded. I am usually on cruise control since we have many radar traps, and State Police just waiting to catch you! I like to see as far back and as broadly as possible because we'll often have someone from up North heading to FL barreling down in the right lane trying to avoid a speeding ticket then cutting over 3 lanes to pass trucks in the right lane and me! I'm usually in the center lane on cruise control at 8 mph over the speed limit. The speed limit is mostly 70 mph but they recently put in a 60 mph limit stretch, which most folks ignore! Doesn't bother me since my usual comment to myself as they wiz past, is "SC needs the money-and happy it's not going to to be mine!" That is where I find the small oval blind spot mirrors useful. Never felt a need in my C6 with it's better rear visibility.
Frankly most times I travel the 16 to 18 miles into town on back rural roads for for most of the trip. The speed limit is typically 55 mph but the cows and corn don't care how fast I go! There is even a neat twisty 5 mile stretch with hardly any traffic! Make much better time traveling that way!

 

So jealous! I get one curvy freeway on-ramp, then I join the herd!

 

The car has gone retro to the SWC in more than name

 

After almost two years I still really look forward to that trip every time I leave the house! There are several hard braking turns as well! Don't mine at all when the wife asks me to run into town to pick up whatever!

 

By depth I mean a marker in yards or meters. The guidance lines pretty much suck as a depth gauge.
I guess I will lay a tape measure on the ground and calibrate the distance each line correlates to. Guess I will do that tomorrow now that it is on my mind. I'll post it and maybe others will find it useful.

 

There are still blind spots even when "setting the mirrors correctly." A tiny tiny one but still - I am not as comfortable with it as I am in all the other cars I drive. My biggest gripe, however, is why the heck does the vette not have side blind assist? We have the tech for it and it's a no brainer.

 

Love what the C7 Stingray and pure petrol power is doing to the Tesla S P85D!
http://www.nocarnofun.com/electric-v...e-c7-stingray/

 

The C7 has a blind spot when approaching a road intersecting the one you are on, from the right side, at an angle of about 30 to 45 degrees. Very scary.

 

My problem every day! We live on a narrow twisty 25 mph limit road 2 miles from a 4 lane divided highway. No other way out! Especially in the summer, lots of traffic in both directions. I need to cross the first 2 lanes of traffic when clear then make a left and merge into oncoming 65+ mph traffic. If I wait for all 4 lanes to be clear, I could wait a long time so I stop at an angle in the area where the divider is located! With my C6, the wife's SUV, no problem- stop at a 50+-10 degrees and watch for oncoming traffic and accelerate out when there is a break. With the C7 I must stop at a very precise 25 ~+-5 degrees to see out the small left side rear window! There is not enough room to comfortably stop perpendicular. I do it very carefully and have fun since I have to accelerate about 75 yards then make a right hand turn onto a rural road! Glad my Carbotech 1521's stop great when cold! I try not to cut in too close to a log truck!

 

Yup, I try to do the same thing, find just the right angle to peep through the little side window. Can't see very much. I tried pulling in closer to 90 degrees to the intersection but, like you, found there was not enough room for that. The car really needs a camera to assist in this situation, even if only on the right side.

In the meantime... lets not get t-boned!!

 

Worst case was when a log truck was in the right lane and I had time to pull out and a car following it pulled out to pass going much faster! Fortunately the Vette accelerates fast enough so instead of my usual quick right turn skipped that road and went about a mile out of my way!

 

That's the same issue I have when changing lanes on a multi-lane highway. You can adjust the mirrors to see the lane next to you, but since you can't actually look that direction, you can't see if a car is trying to get into the same spot you are, but from the opposite direction. Ideally, since they would be slightly behind you, they would let you go first, but some people fight for their space.

 

I've had only one location that created a blind spot that was difficult in my C6 but nearly irreconcilable in the C7. Near my house was a merge lane to the right at a 135° angle, which made it nearly impossible to see the merging traffic that had the right of way. In desperation I installed a wide-angle stick-on mirror which didn't help much, but recently they've been revamping that section of road that'll make it much safer, as there were many accidents there with the old configuration.

I left the stick-on mirror in place as it allows me to see the curb. I haven't tried it yet but it should help with parallel parking even though I could simply move the mirror down temporarily in such cases. Haven't decided whether or not to keep it.

 

The first thing you will notice is the view in the rear view mirror out the back window is claustrophobic compared to the same view for the C6. But you get used to it pretty quickly and, as many other have said, correctly set side mirrors make up for it. I doubt you will have any problems after a few hours seat time in your C7.

 

Set the mirrors properly, move your head and turn your neck to double check, and use the built-in blind spot monitor (the LT1) to accelerate into gaps, rather than looking for one behind you.

If you pull ahead of the car next to you into a gap you can see, the blind spots to the rear don't matter much.