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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?

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"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.

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).

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