Namit was driving a car and suddenly became aware of a loud sound coming from behind. He looked through his rear-view mirror and saw an ambulance. He recalled reading that such emergency vehicles often have their name written with lateral inversion. He quickly made way for the ambulance, murmuring a quick prayer for the speedy recovery of the patent inside the ambulance. What is the type of mirror which is used as a rear-view mirror?

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The type of mirror used is a convex mirror.
We use convex mirrors as rearview mirrors in vehicles because convex mirrors always form virtual, erect, and diminished images irrespective of the object's distance. It forms very small images than the actual size of the object. Thus, a convex mirror enables a driver to view a large area of the traffic behind him in the rearview mirror.

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