These mirrors are convex, which means they distort the size of objects viewed in the mirror, and as such, distorts the perception of how close or far away objects are from the driver’s car.

The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, established in the late 1960s, include a section on rear-view visibility. It ...

Under the law, all large trucks registered in New York state with a maximum gross weight of 26,000 pounds or more are required to be equipped with a convex mirror on the front of the vehicle when ...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has signed a bill requiring trucks registered in the state and operating in New York City to have convex mirrors on the front of the vehicles.

The law, which takes effect on Jan. 14, 2012, requires all trucks registered in the state of New York with a maximum gross weight of 26,000 pounds or more to be equipped with a cross view mirror ...

We are also not sure when the first right outside mirror appeared, but the left outside mirror became standard in the 1960s. We do know why objects appear smaller: Convex lenses bend light.

"Requiring trucks to be equipped with special convex mirrors is a necessary step that will hopefully reduce the number of injuries and deaths that have been the result of a drivers' inability to ...

But convex mirrors affect other perceptual cues (including vergence and accommodation) in ways that lead to predictions of underestimation. Empirical investigations of the effects of mirror curvature ...