eli5 why do things go faster the closer it is when driving

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Let me explain: I’ve noticed when in a car the curb and poles right next to the car fly past so quick but things start going past slower the further away it is like a mountain it doesn’t move but a house it moves a bit slower than the sidewalk

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Because your field of vision is a cone. Close up, you only see like a meter from left to right. So a close-by object doesn’t need long to pass through this distance. But in the far distance, your field of view covers kilometers. And naturally, traversing this long distance takes the objects there a while.

From your perspective it appears a if the objects move the same distance at different speeds, but it’s actually that they travel different distances at the same speed.

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