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Old 02-18-2015, 06:58 PM   #78 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Xist View Post
Is there any way to just use lenses and mirrors, like with cameras and LCDs, but without electronics?

Like a U-shaped periscope, projecting onto a larger screen?

I imagine that image quality would degrade, though.

If somehow you could do that, you could have a mirror in the normal location, and a series of other mirrors reflecting into the car.
An exterior, body-hugging, fresnel lens objective with internal view-screen was promoted 20-years or so ago as a drag reducing replacement for conventional side-view mirrors.I've never seen nor heard of it since.
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