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The person has inertia, the resistence to change in motion, so if the car starts accelerating forward, the person's body wants to stay at the same velocity as before, thus it slides backwards relative to the car. If there were no friction or a back of the seat to stop the person, the person would literally not move while the car moves out from under him, thus seeming to move backwards in the car while in reality the car is moving forward under the person.

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Why does a package on the seat of a bus slide backward when the bus accelerates quickly from rest?

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When starting to slide down a waterslide why would a person push on the side of the slide?

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