A vehicular interior rearview mirror system includes an interior rearview
mirror assembly having one of (a) a variable reflectance reflective
element and (b) a prismatic reflective element. The interior rearview
mirror assembly includes a CMOS video microchip having, when the interior
rearview mirror assembly is normally mounted in the vehicle, a field of
view though the windshield forward of the vehicle and the interior
rearview mirror assembly comprises electronic circuitry responsive to an
input from the video microchip, the circuitry preferably controlling at
least one headlamp of the vehicle. The mirror assembly may contain other
accessories such as a compass sensor disposed in the mirror housing in
the mirror housing behind and supported by the reflective element such
that adjustment about at least one pivot joint by the driver to set the
rearward field view of the reflective element moves the compass sensor in
tandem with movement of the reflective element.