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Old 06-18-2014, 01:53 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Way back when, the passengers mirror was optional. So, that means if the car came without it, it somehow "earns" the right to exist without - which makes no sense really. I'm fairly sure that individual safety inspectors are not going to interpret the law - they are going to go the CYA route.

The only way to really get video mirrors legal is to either rewrite the law to explicitly allow them, or to challenge the current law in court, to force an interpretation of the word "mirror" as used in the current law - to include both optical mirrors and video mirrors.
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