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rear-view mirror

a mirror on a motor vehicle enabling the driver to see traffic coming behind him or her
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Both are called as rear-view mirrors through which we see what is in our back.
The only thing in Limbaugh's rear-view mirror today is former Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey .
As a career professional pilot, when considering something that my wisdom suggests might not look too good in the rear-view mirror, while my bravado is telling me to go for it, I often stop to ask myself how the accident report might read.
In another digital first, the electronic rear-view mirror will feature in the R8 e-tron, the road-going, battery-powered version of the R8 two-seat sports car due to appear in its production form later this year - but this has not yet confirmed for Australia.
"You can't drive policy looking through a rose-tinted rear-view mirror" Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude warning the Tory Party against appearing to be "backward-looking" "He cheated, but it was good.
Adding to the specification of the SE-L grade, the F-Sport gains cruise control, black leather upholstery, heated front seats, electric driver''s seat adjustment, auto-dimming, electrically retractable door mirrors and a rear parking camera that links to a display in the rear-view mirror. Owners can further ramp up the specification with the option of an advanced HDD navigation system combined with Lexus''s Remote Touch control, an auto-dimming rear-view mirror, back guide monitor and ten-speaker audio system.
Windscreens should not contain anything over 10mm in the area below the rear-view mirror.
The top of the helmet liner is sculpted so the rider can see behind simply by glancing up into the rear-view mirror. The rider is more aware of his surroundings through peripheral vision.
The image, similar to a small picture-in-picture window on a television set, started downloading data to a small memory card tucked neatly in the bottom of the cruiser's rear-view mirror.
Writing in a newspaper column, he described the incident as the "best thing I've ever seen in my rear-view mirror".
In the rear-view mirror, however, I saw that the driver of the car behind me was so engrossed in the conversation she was having with the lady in the front passenger seat that she appeared to be largely oblivious of what was going on around her.
In Arkansas, however, we're ready to see all of 2008 in the rear-view mirror.
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