Mirror that eliminates blind spots without warping

wayoflife

Administrator

Staff member

• Jun 9, 2012

• #1

I just love innovation!! With a big ass 40" spare mounted on the back of my Jeep, I could really use a pair of these...

...Andrew R. Hicks, a mathematics professor at Drexel, came up with a compromise that doesn't require video cameras. Instead of bending the mirror like a piece of paper, Hicks says he designed a surface that acts like thousands of tiny disco balls, whose reflections are focused by a new algorithm "so that each ray of light bouncing off the mirror shows the driver a wide, but not-too-distorted, picture of the scene behind him."

Breakthrough driver’s mirror eliminates blind spots without warping the world

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GCM 2

New member

• Jun 9, 2012

• #2

Yes!

My extra large convex clip-on mirror has been working nicely on the windshield, but these would be great for the doors :rock:

 

Sharkey

Word Ninja

• Jun 9, 2012

• #3

Wow, that's crazy how little distortion there is.

 

Bullwinckle

Hooked

• Jun 9, 2012

• #4

That is cool even with everything stock I still have a hard time seeing as well. This would be a good investment! :yup:

 

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TX_JK

New member

• Jun 9, 2012

• #5

I smell a 'group buy'. :rock: Seriously if we could find those i'd buy a set.