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Last week, on Bank Holiday Monday, I went to the Hampshire Pageant of Motoring at the Broadlands estate in Romsey. Here are some of the cars I saw:
2002 Bentley Continental R Mulliner
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2002 Bentley Continental R Mulliner
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It has the same auto-dimming electrochromatic rear view mirror as the Ford Expedition ...
Quote From: Neptune
• Gentex auto-dimming electrochromatic rear view mirrors become available. See Picture (D)
• On Eddie Bauer models, side view mirrors get redundant turn signals integrated into the mirror housing assembly.
• Power adjustable acceleration and break pedals become available.
(C) 2000 model Shown in Eddie Bauer trim 
(D) Gentex rear view mirrorIt’s from an American company called Gentex. Gentex specializes in advanced automotive technology products, and supplies them to automakers the world over.
Older versions of the contoured electrochromatic rear view mirror (the one in the Bentley and Expedition) had button on the face display that could enable/disable the auto-dimming feature. The mirror had two sensors, one was forward mounted on the back of the mirror to monitor the daylight (in low light conditions the mirrors dims just ever so slightly to reduce glare) The other sensor was mounted on the face of the mirror facing out the back of the vehicle to monitor the headlamp intensity of any car following you. (If the car behind you had it’s high-beams on the mirror would go into blackout mode. To remove the blinding light from your eyes) Most all auto-dimming mirrors, regardless if they are from Gentex or some other company, work in similar fashion.
Newer models of that particular Gentex mirror did not have the on/off buttons (which meant the feature was "always-on")
New Gentex mirrors are slightly different in physical appearance (they have a squared off bottom rather than being contoured)