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I think they create a vortex, and that helps to prevent the buffeting that would otherwise happen with the window open.
Typically air rolls over the A pillar from the bottom of the windscreen to the sides, and that would then hit the wing on the mirror and be guided upwards.
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  lifetime FE over 0.2 Gigameter or 0.13 Megamile.
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