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A new, patented car mirror that gives 260-degree peripheral vision without head movement is generating driving simpler, safer and significantly less stressful for individuals with a variety of vision and other impairments-which includes its inventor.

Brad Sawyer, a 100 percent-disabled, Vietnam-era veteran, made the mirror as a driving help for himself. Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) has fused Sawyer's spine, neck and rib cage, leaving him unable to turn his neck. With his safety mirror, Sawyer says he can look straight ahead and work the left and appropriate hinges to appear in either direction, clearly seeing when it is protected to turn left or correct.

Very easily See If Automobiles Are Coming

"When I've angled the visor properly, I no longer have to ask other men and women if automobiles are coming," Sawyer says.

His condition is just one of several disabilities that the MultiFlex Adjust-A-View Security Mirror helps people overcome, Sawyer says. He describes a 33-year-old mother of two who has had her driver's license for 16 years. She drives herself and other individuals, including her children, safely and securely even though she lost an eye to retinoblastoma, a form of eye cancer, when she was only 18 months old.

"I no longer have to turn my head as far to verify blind spots," she says. "This tool increases peripheral vision on both sides, the left specifically. Harmful, 4-corner intersections are no longer a safety concern for me."

No A lot more Blind Spots

Drivers impacted by arthritis and these who endure from back pain, stiff neck or impaired vision all get pleasure from the added safety that comes from being able to see simply what had once remained hidden in conventional blind spots, Sawyer says. The MultiFlex Adjust-A-View Security Mirror (U.S. Patent No. 6926416) provides for tool-cost-free attachment to the driver-side sun visor for distortion-free image reflection in left-side and proper-side blind spots, as nicely as a vehicle's rear seating compartment.

Measuring 123/4 inches wide by 33/4 inches higher, and with left and right mirrors each measuring 51/2 inches wide by three inches high, the security mirror attaches to a traditional driver-side window visor. The driver works hinges to adjust every mirror as necessary and, in that way, views proximate left- and correct-side targeted traffic. thumbnail