Self-driving truck with mirrors to extend a field of view

A system on a vehicle comprising:

• sensors positioned on the vehicle to receive light from an environment around the vehicle and thereby generate sensor data;
• a remote mirror attached to the vehicle that functions to reflect light from the environment around the vehicle towards at least one of the sensors, and thereby provide a portion of the sensor data;
• wherein at least some of the sensor data indicates a location of the remote mirror;
• and,
• a processing subassembly that functions at least in part to calculate a location of the remote mirror relative to the at least one of the sensors by processing the at least some of the sensor data.

A method comprising:

• generating sensor data by sensing with a plurality of sensors attached to a vehicle an environment around the vehicle;
• determining a position of a mirror by processing with a processing subassembly on the vehicle at least some of the sensor data, wherein the mirror is located remotely from at least one of the plurality of sensors;
• and,
• deflecting light from the mirror into the at least one of the plurality of sensors to thereby provide a portion of the sensor data.