| Author | Message | ||
     Jaimec |
Informative AND entertaining: | ||
| Aesquire |
Good stuff. Plus. Pattern recognition. We've evolved ( or were designed, your choice ) to see the dangers around us. In a world where the most dangerous things evolved to blend in, with colors and camouflage, precisely to defeat our vision. So we see patterns, where there may not be any. A glimpse of an ear, a shoulder, EEK! a Lion! But the patterns we create out of glimpses and partial shapes have to be recognized. If you've never seen a Lion, you are unlikely to react quickly to seeing part of one. Especially if you don't "live in lion country". Most cage drivers don't live in 2 wheel country. And very few in Motorcycle Land. It's just as bad if not worse to be a bicycle, for the reasons in the video, but you are slightly more likely to be seen by pattern recognition, since more people are aware of kids on bikes as an object in their world. Kids on Ninjas? Not so much. There's a study I've discussed before, where all those "left turn in front of motorcycle & I never saw him" folk don't ride. Or their kids or SO's. There is Another factor... Speed. Not just that a Motorscooter can go much faster than people should, but that sampling method people use to view the world requires 2 thought processes to judge speed. First, the Object must be isolated by the mind. If ANY of the above reasons for invisibility apply, you are not even an object, so there's no speed input. Second, you need multiple samples of position to judge speed. And the "click click click" and done wide sampling method doesn't give you the multiple samples, even if the brains "sees" "Goldwing", and recognizes it. And, as noted in the video, a constant bearing, aka Collision Course, requires recognition, isolation, and multiple observations on SIZE, not relative motion, ( a much higher brain function ) to judge speed & vector. Often, ain't none of that working. End rant. Stay safe. | ||
| Jaimec |
Hi Patrick. In my mind, you expounded on what Ryan had already pointed out in his video, just using different examples. I think one of the reasons I've been relatively successful (at least until this past June) on motorcycles is that I spent an ENORMOUS amount of time riding bicycles in my younger days; and most of that in the New York City metro area. That really teaches you what it's like to be invisible. |
