1200Pete
Registered User
Sorry mate I didn't see you.........
Sound familiar, it's got to be the bikers nightmare. But I have found a very good reason why people pull out on bikes, cars, busses etc.
Glasses, yup glasses, spectacles the very things that are supposed to help you see things better, can actually make you lethal on the road.
My father pointed this out to me. He is in his late 60's and has ridden bikes and driven cars fast for his whole life, he was a despatch rider in the army when he was younger and went on to become a test driver for Ford Motor Company, his driving and riding has always been second to none.
He has obviously slowed down somewhat now, but about 3 years ago he started pulling out on people, not on a regular basis but every now and again, and he could not work out how he failed to see the other car.
Well I never realised this but if you wear glasses and look out of the corner of your eye the lens and the frame create an enormous blind spot.
Any way he is telling me this in a carpark and hands me his glasses so I try it out and feck me an entire transit parked sideways just disappeared.
I find this utterly and totally un believable that nothing to my knowledge has ever been said about this, no drivers have ever been warned or even made aware of this frightening phenomenon.
I must stress that this seems to be a bit more of a problem in older drivers as they can't move there neck so far and therefore tend to look out the corner of there eye.
The other scary bit is the brain seems to make up for the big bit of the picture that is missing, it is not something you notice unless you consciously look for what ever is missing.
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Sound familiar, it's got to be the bikers nightmare. But I have found a very good reason why people pull out on bikes, cars, busses etc.
Glasses, yup glasses, spectacles the very things that are supposed to help you see things better, can actually make you lethal on the road.
My father pointed this out to me. He is in his late 60's and has ridden bikes and driven cars fast for his whole life, he was a despatch rider in the army when he was younger and went on to become a test driver for Ford Motor Company, his driving and riding has always been second to none.
He has obviously slowed down somewhat now, but about 3 years ago he started pulling out on people, not on a regular basis but every now and again, and he could not work out how he failed to see the other car.
Well I never realised this but if you wear glasses and look out of the corner of your eye the lens and the frame create an enormous blind spot.
Any way he is telling me this in a carpark and hands me his glasses so I try it out and feck me an entire transit parked sideways just disappeared.
I find this utterly and totally un believable that nothing to my knowledge has ever been said about this, no drivers have ever been warned or even made aware of this frightening phenomenon.
I must stress that this seems to be a bit more of a problem in older drivers as they can't move there neck so far and therefore tend to look out the corner of there eye.
The other scary bit is the brain seems to make up for the big bit of the picture that is missing, it is not something you notice unless you consciously look for what ever is missing.
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