If I were to pull out a pair of binoculars and look at your speeding car, I would actually see its length contracted and you moving in slow motion inside. This

If I were to pull out a pair of binoculars and look at your speeding car, I would actually see its length contracted and you moving in slow motion inside. This is not quite true. If you were to actually observe a relativistic object with your eye, you would not observe the object to be contracted in the direction of its motion. To quote A. French: "It seems almost incredible in retrospect, but for over 50 years after Einstein's 1905 paper there was an unchallenged belief among physicists that the Lorentz contraction of a moving body could be seen or photographed. ... When proper account is taken of the time for light to travel to a stationary observer's eye from different parts of a moving object, one recognizes that the appropriate instants at which light must start out from various points of the body must be different, and hence are associated with different positions of the body as a whole. The general result of this is that the body appears distorted." French then goes on to describe the case of a moving rod and the case of a moving rectangular board. Were you to actually see either of these objects moving relativistically, they would not appear contracted, but would instead appear rotated. It's a subtle point and it was not recognized until 1959 by J. Terrell.