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Originally Posted by basjoos
In addition to simplicity, mirrors have another advantage over video cameras. With video, the view you get with the camera is all you get. With a mirror you can move your head forward or back and side to side to shift your angle of view relative to the mirror to see objects that just out of view from your usual head position.
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An excellent point, and one that I discovered for myself earlier today. I was backing a vehicle at work, a late model CR-V with the reversing camera. I found it quite useless as the rear view was so distorted and so limited that it lacked context by which I could judge the position of the car.
So I used the mirrors.