page_title: Vehicle blind spot
section_title: Boats
hierarchical_section_title: Vehicle blind spot / Boats
context_page_description: A blind spot in a vehicle is an area around the vehicle that cannot be directly observed by the driver while at the controls, under existing circumstances. Blind spots exist in a wide range of vehicles: aircraft, cars, motorboats, sailboats, and trucks. Other types of transport have no blind spots at all, such as bicycles, horses, and motorcycles. Proper adjustment of mirrors and use of other technical solutions can eliminate or alleviate vehicle blind spots.
  A no zone is one of several areas around a large truck, where the truck driver cannot see. Collisions frequently occur in no zones.
  In transport, driver visibility is the maximum distance at which the driver of a vehicle can see and identify prominent objects around the vehicle. Visibility is primarily determined by weather conditions and by a vehicle's design. The parts of a vehicle that influence visibility include the windshield, the dashboard and the pillars. Good driver visibility is essential to safe road traffic.
  Blind spots may occur in the front of the driver when the A-pillar, side-view mirror, or interior rear-view mirror block a driver's view of the road.
context_section_description: Blind spots also exist in front of boats. When the boat accelerates, the bow rises, increasing the size of the blind spot. Large vessels can have up to several hundreds of meters of blind spot. This is generally known as the dead visual range of a ship. To address this, cameras are sometimes placed in the front of the vessel to cover the missing field of view.
  Blind spots exist where areas behind the sail are obscured from the view of a helmsman on a sailboat or windsurfer.  This is especially true when they are heeled over; consequently, transparent windows are sometimes sewn into the sails.
caption: A blind spot in a (large) motorboat