Now there's a newly patented side-view mirror that claims to eliminate that pesky blind spot.
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It's much different from the mirrors you can purchase at an auto parts store and adhere to the side-view mirror because it doesn't distort images.
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Cutting-edge amenities like a rearview camera with top-down side-view perspectives for easier parking and an infrared Night Vision system make it one of the best-selling luxury cars on the road.
The side-view mirrors on most cars are flat, and while they give drivers an accurate sense of the distance of cars behind them, they have a narrow field of view, leaving a space behind the vehicle -- the blind spot -- that a driver can't see.
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The German manufacturer recently released a video of this self-parking wizardry -- you can catch it by following the Read link -- which shows a happy homeowner simply pushing a button on his keyfob to fire up the motor, retract the side-view mirrors, and send the car on a controlled journey to its home just inches from another luxury ride.
Next to it he draws a side-on view, making the point that although the building tapers at the top, the separate shards never touch.
Perhaps the best thing about this hotel, which originally opened in 1980 as the Regent, is the port-side view from your rooms.
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The technology package includes side beams, side view camera and head-up display.
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.
Each time you toggled to a new tab, the ads on the right-hand side refreshed meaning a new page view and ka-ching for Facebook.
The simple reason for this part of the creative process is that our eyes are set side-by-side in our heads, making the landscape view more pleasing and open than the portrait view.
From the side view silhouette, classic rear-drive sport sedan proportions are conveyed by an extended dash-to-axle length, short overhangs, large-diameter wheels, sharply-tapered greenhouse, and short rear deck.
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He pointed to a recent move to allow greater use of so-called "Trixi mirrors" - which are fitted to traffic lights to give lorry drivers a better view of cyclists on their left side at road junctions - as evidence of how serious the issue of safety was viewed.
The left-hand side is a list, with major categories for Favorites (the smartphone-type view), All Apps, and the Control Panel items.
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There's also Twin View, which enables simultaneous side-by-side playback of two different video clips after they're transferred to a tablet, for comparative viewing.
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This would include people like overweight New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who appears to be the very definition of a smart, hard-working guy no matter what side of the aisle you view him from.
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Analysts said the majority's view suggested they would not hike unless demand-side pressures, such as wage increases, became a problem or in the case that mid-term inflation expectations deteriorate.
"There are certainly stocks which could look interesting on a longer-term view, but we want to see more clarification on the regulatory side in terms of investments in fixed broadband, " he added.
But if neither side changes its approach, if the United States continues to view any attempt by a non-aligned power to exert regional influence as a threat to be countered and if Russia continues to believe that it has the final say on the economic and political trajectory of its neighbors, then conflict is inevitable.
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My wife was thinking the same thing about her view as she held our four year-old son on her shoulders on the opposite side of the street.
In this view, common in Paris, Berlin and Brussels, the crisis may have a beneficial side-effect if it makes America seek more equal relations with its European allies.
The Likud, like Kadima and Labour, purported to support (or at least to acquiesce in) the view that the Israel-Palestine conflict can be solved by creating two sovereign states existing side by side.
Washington (CNN) -- A program that puts air traffic controllers in the cockpit to view life "on the other side of the frequency" is being resurrected almost a decade after it was killed by Sept. 11 security measures.
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Cole's top-level corner space on the building where his offices are located on the far west side of Manhattan provides a view of the Hudson River.
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