This is why cars dont see us...Science fact

tosh23

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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.

Here is the link....

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

Thats why cars dont see us
 
There was also one on a science show recently that showed that if you move from looking at one location directly to looking at another, that your brain already knows that there is a distance between the two points and does not bother processing the images of anything between the two points as it is expecting what you are changing to look at to be more important than what you scan past. This can result in you not even seeing the object (for instance a motorcycle) that is in the gap between the points.

Note I have actually seen this effect in real life but didn't realize what is was until I saw the science show. What I saw was a child look right and left to cross a road, but completely miss the car that was passing directly in front of him. The result was he walked straight into the side of the moving car.
 
I have seen this when driving, you come to a junction and look up the road and are surprised by a car that flashes past right in front of you as you look back close, the old look once, look twice trick works, I never pull out without looking each way twice.
 
It's quite well known, apparently, that the army have experimented with using tanks with bright lights as camouflage ...... not at night obviously! .... but as tanks come over a skyline, if they are showing bright lights, they are much more difficult to see.
 
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tosh23 said:
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.

Here is the link....

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

Thats why cars dont see us
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to combat this we need to change from lane to lane and alter speed and direction as often as possible. Must remember that tip next time I get a tug for 'making progress':D
 
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