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How Car Rear View Mirrors Work
Distance of objects in car mirrorsHow to make mirrors give more authentic image of myselfHow does this trick with mirrors work?Reflections in Rearview MirrorWhat color would you see if you place 2 mirrors in opposit when one is a one way mirrorWhy are there no true oneway mirrors?How do car headlights work?Converging mirrors and the transition between inverted and non-inverted imagesWhat are both way dielectric polarized mirrortwo one way mirrors placed against each other
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I wonder how Car Rear View Mirrors Works?
when a car behind me with HighBeam, all I do is to flip a tongue in the bottom of the mirror to relax the lights !!
are there 2 mirrors in it one is darker than the other?
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I wonder how Car Rear View Mirrors Works?
when a car behind me with HighBeam, all I do is to flip a tongue in the bottom of the mirror to relax the lights !!
are there 2 mirrors in it one is darker than the other?
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I wonder how Car Rear View Mirrors Works?
when a car behind me with HighBeam, all I do is to flip a tongue in the bottom of the mirror to relax the lights !!
are there 2 mirrors in it one is darker than the other?
reflection
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I wonder how Car Rear View Mirrors Works?
when a car behind me with HighBeam, all I do is to flip a tongue in the bottom of the mirror to relax the lights !!
are there 2 mirrors in it one is darker than the other?
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For manual anti-glare mirrors, the glass is actually a prism with the silvered rear surface not parallel to the front surface
In day-time position, drivers are seeing reflections from the rear surface with large amounts of reflected light reaching their eyes
In night-time anti-glare position, drivers are seeing reflections from the front surface of the glass, with much less light going into their eyes; the brighter rear reflection goes elsewhere. This is still enough to distinguish headlights behind, but not much else, and substantially less than if the day-time position was used at night, so reducing the contrast which could be blinding if the following vehicles were foolish enough to use full-beam headlights
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear-view_mirror#Anti-glare for more (and the automated alternative) which has these two diagrams
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For manual anti-glare mirrors, the glass is actually a prism with the silvered rear surface not parallel to the front surface
In day-time position, drivers are seeing reflections from the rear surface with large amounts of reflected light reaching their eyes
In night-time anti-glare position, drivers are seeing reflections from the front surface of the glass, with much less light going into their eyes; the brighter rear reflection goes elsewhere. This is still enough to distinguish headlights behind, but not much else, and substantially less than if the day-time position was used at night, so reducing the contrast which could be blinding if the following vehicles were foolish enough to use full-beam headlights
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear-view_mirror#Anti-glare for more (and the automated alternative) which has these two diagrams
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For manual anti-glare mirrors, the glass is actually a prism with the silvered rear surface not parallel to the front surface
In day-time position, drivers are seeing reflections from the rear surface with large amounts of reflected light reaching their eyes
In night-time anti-glare position, drivers are seeing reflections from the front surface of the glass, with much less light going into their eyes; the brighter rear reflection goes elsewhere. This is still enough to distinguish headlights behind, but not much else, and substantially less than if the day-time position was used at night, so reducing the contrast which could be blinding if the following vehicles were foolish enough to use full-beam headlights
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear-view_mirror#Anti-glare for more (and the automated alternative) which has these two diagrams
answered 2 hours ago
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For manual anti-glare mirrors, the glass is actually a prism with the silvered rear surface not parallel to the front surface
In day-time position, drivers are seeing reflections from the rear surface with large amounts of reflected light reaching their eyes
In night-time anti-glare position, drivers are seeing reflections from the front surface of the glass, with much less light going into their eyes; the brighter rear reflection goes elsewhere. This is still enough to distinguish headlights behind, but not much else, and substantially less than if the day-time position was used at night, so reducing the contrast which could be blinding if the following vehicles were foolish enough to use full-beam headlights
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear-view_mirror#Anti-glare for more (and the automated alternative) which has these two diagrams
answered 2 hours ago
HenryHenry
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For manual anti-glare mirrors, the glass is actually a prism with the silvered rear surface not parallel to the front surface
In day-time position, drivers are seeing reflections from the rear surface with large amounts of reflected light reaching their eyes
In night-time anti-glare position, drivers are seeing reflections from the front surface of the glass, with much less light going into their eyes; the brighter rear reflection goes elsewhere. This is still enough to distinguish headlights behind, but not much else, and substantially less than if the day-time position was used at night, so reducing the contrast which could be blinding if the following vehicles were foolish enough to use full-beam headlights
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear-view_mirror#Anti-glare for more (and the automated alternative) which has these two diagrams
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