The small mirror attached to your car's side mirror is called a blind spot mirror. It's usually a small convex piece of glass added to either corner of the main side-view mirror. Its purpose is to ...

As cars get larger and more complex, so do their components. Consider the humble side-view mirror, once an optional add-on, now a safe-folding, lane-watching, self-defogging marvel of technology. And ...

Digital side rear-view mirrors are intended to be a safety enhancement – an improvement on the real thing. After using them here in the U.K. during a month-long visit, for 2,500 kilometres of daily ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2013—A new optical prescription for automobile side-view mirrors may eliminate the dreaded "blind spot" in traffic without distorting the perceived distance of cars approaching ...