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The "Objects in the mirror may appear closer than they are" warning is a US thing also isn't it?

• sfphotoarts 18y ago
  yes, welcome to the Nanny State... Much along the same idea, coming out of the Ferry Building in San Francisco a few days back when it was pouring with rain, someone had helpfully put out cones to warn me that I was entering the outside and that it was wet. The black sky, and cats and dogs falling from it might have also tipped me off, but thankfully I had the cones as confirmation :)
• petercooper 18y ago
  I just Googled around for objects in the mirror may appear closer than they are and objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear. Two totally different things. Thousands of results. Which one is actually true? Surely if objects are further away than they appear, it's pointless to note that since it's safe. So it has to be "Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear" right?
  • likpok 18y ago
    "objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear" If you think about it, it is a concave mirror giving wider field of vision. Concave mirrors give virtual smaller images.
    • twopoint718 18y ago
      Convex mirrors will produce a smaller virtual image (behind the plane of the mirror) taken from a wider field of view. Concave mirrors will produce an inverted real image (for objects farther away than the focal length) or a larger virtual image (for objects inside the focal length).
• cstejerean 18y ago
  It's actually the opposite, objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear. In fact they are closer, this is for the passenger side mirrors. Cars always look farther away in it than in the driver side mirror or in the middle rear-view mirror