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Originally Posted by Smokeduv
I was thinking in something like this. I did it at work in 10 minutes, so not a lot of considerations on additional aero variables, but I think that with that arm length, it is a bit outside from the flow (as in the Subaru XT mentioned by aerohead). I'm not a designer nor an aerodynamic expert, I'm just a chemist which is a bit bored at work, so this was the best I could do (I know it looks like an elementary school drawing).
I thought on this design because of the Laws on obligatory side mirrors, so they can be further optimized if it didn't have a mirror, just the camera. I only took into consideration achieving the minimum frontal area possible.
The arm can be changed to a very slim one, but I'm taking all the cabling into account.
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I've been thinking similarly.
The Porsche 911 GT (1996) kinda did this with the body of the mirror,also placing it ahead of the A-pillars,into lower velocity air.
The streamlined mount seems like a natural.
And keeping the width,but shrinking the height gets it more like an airfoil section.
Formula-1 has some cars doing this.And the view through them seems appropriate for street cars.
