What car had the first rear-view mirror?
First Publicized Use of a Rearview Mirror The first well-known use of a rearview mirror for automobiles was by a race car driver in the very first Indianapolis 500, held in 1911. Ray Harroun was driving an Indianapolis-built Marmon “Wasp,” a crowd favorite. What is rear-view mirror called? Convex mirrors have very wide field of …