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2. Rear-view mirror - Wikipedia

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   A prismatic rear-view mirror—sometimes called a "day/night mirror"—can be tilted to reduce the brightness and glare of lights, mostly for high-beam headlights of vehicles behind which would otherwise be reflected directly into the driver's eyes at night. This type of mirror is made of a piece of glass that is wedge-shaped in cross-section ...

3. “Still Can’t Explain What We Saw”: 30 Eerie Sights That Made ...

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   One night I was driving the backroads home out in the middle of nowhere Missouri. Top down, enjoying the night air. I dove under some low hanging trees and heard a weird SLAP noise from the backseat.

4. Elmer Berger (inventor) - Wikipedia

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   Elmer Clinton Adolph Berger (12 August 1891 – 15 July 1952) was an inventor born in St. Louis, Missouri who is credited with the invention of the automotive rear-view mirror in the early 1900s. Although racing enthusiast Ray Harroun experimented with one as early as 1911 while driving in the Indianapolis 500 , it was Elmer Berger who obtained ...

5. Reversing (vehicle maneuver) - Wikipedia

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   A two-trailer vehicle driving backwards. Reversing (also known as backing up) is the process of driving a vehicle in the reverse direction in order to maneuver. Rear view mirrors are somewhat standard equipment for this endeavor. Reversing a vehicle is used as an intermediate step to complete a three point turn, J-turn, parallel park, or ...

6. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear - Wikipedia

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   It is present because while these mirrors' convexity gives them a useful field of view, it also makes objects appear smaller. Since smaller-appearing objects seem farther away than they actually are, a driver might make a maneuver such as a lane change assuming an adjacent vehicle is a safe distance behind, when in fact it is quite a bit closer ...

7. Backup camera - Wikipedia

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   Backup camera view on the navigation screen of a Lexus IS 250 Backup camera on a Volkswagen Golf Mk7 hidden inside the logo. A backup camera (also called a reversing camera or rear-view camera) is a video camera specifically designed to be attached to the rear of a vehicle to aid in reversing and reduce the rear blind spot.