SMIDSY extraordinaire

[Hot_Air]

Sorry, mate, I didn’t see all eight of you:

https://road.cc/content/news/driver-who ... der-304681

[Mr Moofo]

Sorry, mate, I didn’t see all eight of you:

https://road.cc/content/news/driver-who ... der-304681

How is that just a community order

[JackyJoll]

Sorry, mate, I didn’t see all eight of you:

https://road.cc/content/news/driver-who ... der-304681

How is that just a community order

You have to excel yourself to be jailed for a first offence.

She made a mistake while driving a car.

[Horse]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 098111.stm

A woman has been taken to hospital in Bristol after her car was involved in a crash with a police motorcyclist.

Eyewitnesses said several police cars, motorbikes and a van were travelling along Whiteladies Road, Bristol, when the crash happened.

The officers, some of whom were armed, were part of a training exercise.

A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police said: "A police motorcyclist was involved in a minor collision with a member of the public."

He added: "The female driver sustained suspected whiplash injuries and was taken to hospital as a precaution. The police motorcyclist was uninjured.

"It is understood the car driver pulled across the road when the collision happened.

"The police motorcyclist was taking part in a training exercise when the collision happened.

"No other police vehicles were involved and it is important to stress this was not a high-speed training exercise. The training continued following the collision."

[The Spin Doctor]

Couple of points. In cases like this we always assume that the eye acts like a camera and that everything in the field of view should be seen but that's not how the eyes / brain work.

Here's the photo that suggests what should have been seen.

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First of all, there are significant limitations to vision - peripheral vision is not what we see out of the corners of our eyes, it's most of what we think we see - the brain constructs most of the 'clear vision' we think we have. In fact the cone of clear and focused colour vision is only about 5 degrees across - Leonardo da Vinci figured that out.

Our actual view of the scene would be more like this.

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Here's a representation of how the brain would have seen the junction had the driver been looking at the bend in the distance.

That's why I constantly remind riders who think that looking at the Limit Point solves everything that if we do that, we lose lateral information - on my training courses I talk about the absolute need get our eyes moving laterally and avoid fixating on the Limit Point because moving the foveal gaze is the only way to pick up detail information about what's going on laterally.

Secondly we can't rely on things popping into our consciousness - we the need to train the brain what things it's important that it becomes aware of. Unless we give the brain a reason for investing effort into detecting objects such as road signs we'll often ride straight past them without seeing them.

Check out David Eagleman's fascinating 'The Brain'.

[MrLongbeard]

Here's a representation of how the brain would have seen the junction had the driver been looking at the bend in the distance.

This turned up yesterday, which isn't a million miles different