
110 Ergonomics in the Automotive Design Process
obscuration in either the left or right monocular views. This is because some portions of obscuration in
the left eye are visible to the right eye and vice versa. Thus, the binocular obscuration (i.e., the eld not
visible to both the eyes simultaneously) is always smaller than any of the monocular obscurations.
Figure 6.8 shows another interesting effect. It shows the ambinocular outside mirror eld (shaded
area that covers the reected eld in the rear), which is what the driver will see as the total mirror
eld from the left and the right eyes together (assuming that the mirror surface is the ...