Sideview mirrors

So maybe I’m just remarkably unobservant, but I discovered something recently. While reading a book of “Imponderables” I came across an entry that had something to do with sideview mirrors on cars. Not sure the exact connection, but it mentioned something about how the passenger side mirror was required to say “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear” but the driver’s side mirror had to be an accurate mirror. So when I was driving to Midland this weekend, I was glancing in my mirrors (like a good driver) and realized that, in fact, objects in the passenger mirror look significantly smaller than objects in my driver’s side mirror. I had never realized that before. Never. Did everybody else know that? I always assumed that the message about objects being closer than they appear also applied to the driver’s side mirror, but they just chose to print it on one of the mirrors…

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