Patent ID: 7600877

Claim:
In a driver side mirror adjustably mounted on an exterior portion of a motor vehicle having a direction of travel, the mirror of the type having an upright axis perpendicular to the direction of travel of the vehicle, the mirror having the further optical characteristic improvement comprising: a continuously curved elliptical cross sectional shape for the mirror ranging from highest elliptical curvature extending from a mirror edge closest to the vehicle and smoothly continuously diminishing in elliptical curvature over the entire cross sectional shape all of the way to an edge of the mirror away from the vehicle; and a visible adjustment line on the mirror in the upright direction in the region of highest elliptical curvature defining a driver side view of the mirror and a traffic side view, with the mirror adjustably positioned relative to the vehicle such that the driver side view presents the driver side of the vehicle and the traffic side view presents an optical cone adjacent to the vehicle.