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If you want to know what happens when you are driving at very nearly the speed of light, an answer can be given. Within your car you observe no unusual effects. You can look at yourself in your mirror which is moving with the car and you will look the same as usual. Looking out of the window is a different matter. The light from your headlights will always go at the speed of light in your reference frame. It will strike any object in its path and be reflected back. Everything else will be coming towards you at nearly the speed of light, so the light reflected from it will be Doppler shifted to very high frequencies--towards the ultraviolet or beyond. If you have a suitable camera you could take a snapshot. The objects passing are contracted in length but because of the different times of passage for the light and effects of aberration, the snapshot will show the objects you pass as rotated.
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Taken from:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...eadlights.html
Basically, you wouldn't see anything, regardless of whether something is in front of you, as the reflected light would be blue shifted well beyond what we can perceive. If you could, it would look...funky lol. All distorted and stuff. Though, it's not like your eye could track the object fast enough to actually get a good look at it anyway.
Fun stuff to think about though!
EDIT: That was at like 99.99999999% the speed of light. At 100% of c, nothing would really happen. Kinda like dividing by zero, only with your eyes. If you get my drift lol