The consumer is a rear view mirror, not a guide to the future.

消费者是后视镜，而不是对未来的指南。

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One very strange omission is a rear view mirror when in the car's bonnet mode.

有一点非常奇怪的事，一个使用车子引擎盖模式的时候会出现一个镜面的反射。

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Living in the past is like looking in a rear view mirror; things behind you are placed in front of you.

活在过去就像是在看后视镜，在你后面的东西都跑到了你前面。

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In the click of a button, I had both straight-ahead point of view (on the TV) and a rear view mirror (on the controller).

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The ultimate aim is for Nico to use a mirror to interpret objects around it, in the same way as humans use a rear-view mirror to look for cars.

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Looking at Point-of-Sale (POS) data gives a rear-view mirror view of what consumers want and have bought.

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