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2. Rear-view mirror - Wikipedia

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   Rear-view mirror showing cars parked behind the vehicle containing the mirror. A rear-view mirror (or rearview mirror) is a, usually flat, mirror in automobiles and other vehicles, designed to allow the driver to see rearward through the vehicle's rear window (rear windshield).

3. Side-view mirror - Wikipedia

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   Due to this, early cars had just a single rear-view mirror mounted on the top of the windshield or on top of the dashboard. When side mirrors were introduced to help drivers see overtaking vehicles, most cars only had the driver side mirror as standard equipment. A passenger side mirror was optional on most cars through the 1970s.

4. 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 ...

5. Vehicle blind spot - Wikipedia

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   As one is driving an automobile, blind spots are the areas of the road that cannot be seen while looking forward or through either the rear-view or side mirrors (expecting that the side mirrors are properly adjusted on a passenger auto – see above). The most common are the rear quarter blind spots, areas towards the rear of the vehicle on ...

6. 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 ...

7. Car mirror - Wikipedia

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   Car mirror may refer to: Rear-view mirror , a mirror in vehicles that allows the driver to see rearwards Wing mirror , or side mirror, a mirror on the exterior of vehicles