Why does the passenger mirror on a car read, “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear,” but not the driver’s side?

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Why does the passenger mirror on a car read, “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear,” but not the driver’s side?

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That mirror isn’t quite perfectly flat so it changes the field of view, but a side effect of that is it alters how big things look (making them smaller). If you’ve ever seen one of those big dome mirrors in a store, similar idea

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