Why do we prefer a convex mirror as a rear- view mirror in vehicles?

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Two reasons
(i) It always produced erect and virtual image
(ii) The size of the image is smaller then the object.
Both of the above reason allows the driver to have a wider view of the traffic behind the vehicle in small mirror

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