Eye Test

[fung]

unashamedly pinched from carpe tdm.
better to not be selfish with such good info.

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Pass it around may save afew skins !

AMAZING EYE TEST



Motion Induced Blindness





This is frightening! It works exactly like it says, and is one major reason people in cars can look right at you (when you're on a motorcycle or bicycle)---AND NOT SEE YOU. From a former Naval Aviator. This is a great illustration of what we were taught about scanning outside the cockpit when I went through training back in the '50s. We were told to scan the horizon for a short distance, stop momentarily, and repeat the process. I can remember being told why this was the most effective technique to locate other aircraft. It was emphasized (repeatedly) to NOT fix your gaze for more than a couple of seconds on any single object. The instructors, some of whom were WWII veterans with years of experience, instructed us to continually "keep our eyes moving and our head on a swivel" because this was the best way to survive, not only in combat, but from peacetime hazards (like a midair collision) as well. We basically had to take the advice on faith (until we could experience for ourselves) because the technology to demonstrate it didn't exist at that time.


Click on the link below for a demonstration ....

http://www.msf-usa.org/motion.html

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[Dav]

Here's another famous example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
ps Fung, founds yours very interesting and useful also

[ekoja]

In Fungs example, it surprising that no matter how big the yellow dots are they still disappear.
I guess one could spend the morning relating hazards that could kill us...but.
My pet hate is the practice of growing large decorative bushes in the middle of roundabout that effectively hide cars.
Up to my place there's one that has some fine examples of bushy trees and shit but not only in the middle of the roundabout but in the median strip appraoching the r/bout as well. it bloody hides trucks.
I must write to someone.

[fung]

good time to do it too . . . . we vote for local government in a couple of weeks
cheers
fung