Quote Originally Posted by c0l7hy
is that a mirror sticking up from the hood of that trailblazer or whatever it is
Yea, it's a curb mirror...it's got a fisheye surface so you can see anything that's obscured by the hood. A lot of Japanese SUVs have it.

My uncle in India had a CR-V...it came with a curb mirror. Pretty useful actually, especially if you're parallel parking and you don't want to scrape a wheel.