According to OnStar, 23 percent of car owners who had an Onstar FMV mirror installed in their car owned a practically new 2011 or 2012 model.

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Soon Dutcher was in his car following the two ladies when the siren of a police car was in the rearview mirror.

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In what she now realizes was an ironic moment, Nyad says, she looked into the rearview mirror in her car and decided that might not be entirely true.

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When a wired car is in the blind spot of one of GM's test Cadillacs, an icon of a car lights up in the side mirror.

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Like trying to steer a car by looking in the rearview mirror, they hold hearings to figure out what went wrong and then write new laws based on old facts.

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My companion asks the boy selling Vitamin C, who is helping to move my car, to push in the side mirror.

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Once home, I taped copies of my new list on the refrigerator, the bathroom mirror, the dashboard of my car.

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But don't expect the mirror to come standard on new car models.

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The woman whom the noise of the Dodge always brought out stared stonily, continuing to stand there when the car went on, a still image in the rearview mirror.

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The systems basically work the same: a series of cameras, lasers or infrared sensors integrated into the car (on the back side of the rear-view mirror, in the bumper or behind the windshield, for instance) monitors lane markings in the road.

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The car behind me screeches and I see it swerving in the rearview mirror, but it drives over the bundle, too.

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