| TYPE |
CHARACTERISTICS |
ADVANTAGE |
DISADVANTAGE |
|
Plane
outside mirror |
Plane
mirror |
Clear
image is and none or less distortion |
Narrow
eyeshot, big dead angle, traffic accident is incidental when
wheeling, overtaking and changing
line |
|
Spherical
rearview mirror |
Single curved mirror (with the same curvature radius) |
Wide
view field |
Blurry
image, more distortion, bad distant sense, with dizziness |
|
Hyperbolical
rearview mirror |
Two
different curvature radius make up of a mirror surface |
Narrow
view field, clear image, less distortion, anti-dazzling in
the evening |
Bad
distant sense and less distortion |
|
BOSHI Multiple Curvature Rearview Mirror without Blind-spots (patented in Dec 1995) |
Countless
different curvature radius make up of a mirror
surface |
Better
distant sense, wide view field, no distortion, clear image,
anti-dazzling in the evening |
|
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