Rear View Mirrors (Yes, I know this is a bit bizarre)

[MStiller]

Hello all
I'm a vehicle engineer at a small company designing and building a lightweight vehicle, and in the interests of aerodynamics, we're interested in using rear view cameras instead of external mirrors. Unrelated to this, we are also in the market for a tow vehicle, and I was looking at the Ford F-350 pickup trucks, and I happened to notice that on a truck with a rear view camera, the screen was actually "embedded" in the center rear view mirror. So, in the interests of space/cool factor for our prototype, we're interested in potentially using our center mirror as the display for our rear view cameras. The problem is, I cant find the manufacturer, nor do I know how to get in contact with any of the Ford engineers. So, does anyone have any contacts/ideas?

Let me know

 

[IRstuff]

This pops up on websearch:

http://www.laipac.com/multimedia-rear-mirror.htm

http://www.i4u.com/article6741.html

http://www.autoanything.com/mirrors/61A3727A0A0.aspx

http://www.backup-sensor.com/parking_sensor_camera.htm

TTFN

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[TurboXS]

There are lots of Taiwan and Chinese manufacturers of these. Last time I was at SEMA a lot of people were selling these.