Why do we still have wing mirrors on cars? They should be little screens powered by cameras, to reduce drag. Sports cars even do away with door handles, but still have mirrors stuck out!
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6 years ago
Wing mirrors on cars
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6 years ago
I haven't had wing mirrors on a car since the late 70's.
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6 years ago
I havent used mirrors except wing mirrors since the late 1970s
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6 years ago
Shaving mirror?
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6 years ago
"wing mirrors"are Limey invention - virtually never seen or used "on this side of the pond"
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6 years ago
I presume you mean "wing mirrors" in the precise sense of the phrase. So did US/Canadian cars have door mirrors (viewed through the door window) as opposed to wing mirrors (viewed through the windshield) much earlier than we did in the UK and Europe? Or are you saying that US/Can cars don't have any form of mirror that shows the side of the car (for overtaking and for parking close to a kerb) and only have the central mirror that looks through the rear window?
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6 years ago
This is a uk. NG, so who cares what the other side of the pond has or doesn't have?
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6 years ago
Actually it's in an American group aswell.
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They're on cars in EVERY country:
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6 years ago
You'd be right if not cross posed to other groups that are USA/Canada centric.
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6 years ago
No, they have door mirrors same as us.
Well no, now I think of it they are worse in this sense: the driver's side door mirror is not convex but flat (and thus provides a shitty field of view) while the passenger's side one has to have "things may look further way than they really are" etched on the glass.
Hopeless.
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6 years ago
Well can whoever started that, cut it out. We're not interested.
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6 years ago
North American cars have door mounted mirrors,and have had since at least the twenties - except for a few that had mirrors mounted on the side mounted spare tires. Passenger side mirrors used to be an option
- but have been standard equipment for several decades now - and virtuallly all NEW cars also have reverse vision cameras - and some even "full surround view" cameras.
It uis also very common for the side view mirrors to be remote controlled, allowing the driver to adjust them "on the fly" for traffic monitoring, or precision backing, at the touch of a button.
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6 years ago
You are on alt home repair" which MOST DEFINITELY is NOT a "UK group"
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6 years ago
Why would you etch that on the passenger side, when it's the driver who needs to be told?
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6 years ago
Why would you be less interested than UK people?
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6 years ago
Common? Every car has motorised mirrors.
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6 years ago
No we're on uk.d-i.y, would all others please go away.
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6 years ago
I'm in the UK, with a UK car.
I have driver and passenger side mirrors, and a reverse vision camera. Also a low level forward vision mirror with a wide vision lens for emerging from narrow turnings.
(and a high level forward vision camera for automatic lane keeping, driver fatigue detection, automatic headlamp dipping and automatic speed limiting based on speed limit sign recognition)
Of course. I have those on my UK car, and a lot of people do.
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6 years ago
Why not, "Things seen in the mirror are really behind you"?