When you are riding down a road, you may experience _____, which involves objects in the foreground, such as a telephone poles, appearing to fly by, while objects in the distance, such as mountains, seeming to barely move.

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This is a description of motion parallax, which refers to the perceptual phenomenon where objects closer to the observer appear to move faster than objects farther away from the observer when the observer is in motion.

When You Are Riding Down a Road, You May Experience