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Vehicle: Car: Mirror: Periscope
Round the corner mirror   (-2)  [vote for, against]
Nose mounted mirror for seeing around obstacles

Mounted right out at the front of the bonnet is a mirror at roughly a 45 degree angle. This will give you a better view of oncoming traffic when coming out of a side street or driveway when parked cars, bushes, garbage bins, etc obscure the view from the driver's seat.

Optionally, this could pop up from a retracted postion, and have a control in the dash for the exact angle.
-- BunsenHoneydew, Aug 24 2003

bit like this http://www.halfbake.../idea/Nose_20Camera
best wishes to drew wherever he is BTW [po, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

or this? http://www.halfbake...t_20Face_20Forwards
[JKew, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

How about a videocamera on the hood and LCD screen on the dash?
-- grip, Aug 24 2003


It's called a "crossover mirror", and is very baked. Mandatory equipment on school buses most places that I know of.
-- lurch, Aug 24 2003


How about a giant motorized mirror that I can use to reflect sunlight back into tailgaters' eyes?


-- DeathNinja, Aug 24 2003


/How about a giant motorized mirror that I can use to reflect sunlight back into tailgaters' eyes?//

I'd croissant that!
-- FloridaManatee, Aug 24 2003


[UB] Perhaps a giant HeNe laser as the add-on pack.
-- DeathNinja, Aug 24 2003


I had the same idea which I called sideview mirror, with the additional feature that it would fold down flat when the car was moving, and rise when the car was stopped with the motor running.
-- macrumpton, Jun 18 2004



random, halfbakery