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We need one more second The bus seems to start moving forward again

Some crazy biach crashed in to me the other day... she's probably out there just waiting for another victim.

She said she didn't see me... WTF did she have her f'ing eyes closed... kind of scary how stupid f**kers are out there with directional 1 ton recking balls.

Gorgo said...

Were you in a vehicle or riding a bike or motorbike?

When your eyes are scanning from left to right your eyes actually jump from point to point. Your brain creates the illusion of a smooth, scanning image but you ar not actually viewing the whole scene continuously. You are blind during the instant that your eyes skip.

So, if you are a small enough figure, or moving fast enough, that you can fit in to the gaps in vision then it is very likely that you will not be seen. If you ride around expecting people to see you then you are going to get hit.

The solution is to make sure you keep enough free space around you so that people get enough chances to see you before they get close.

I doubt you could put something like that down to saccades... Particularly if something was moving in your peripheral vision (rod receptors), which is very sensitive to light, movement etc...

FlySurfer said...

In the car (luckily!) @ a round about... I was coming from her right.

On a round about!!! You were coming from her right!!!

The big question is "Whose front wheels entered the round about first?"

As we should all know, the rule for roundabouts is "Give way to traffic on the roundabout."

Where I live the council has only one solution for intersections. Stick in a roundabout even if it is only 4 metres in diameter, then stick bushes and trees all over it so nobody can see past it. Brilliant. Oh but they have done a course at university haven't they?

Then the people approaching roundabouts seem to think one or more of three things:-

1. If I have the bigger vehicle and am doing 80 kmh, I have right of way over everybody.

2. Roundabout?? So what, just another intersection. Definitely do not give way to anybody on my left, even if they are half way across the roundabout, and only give way to my right if he is the bloke in 1. above and he has outbluffed me.

3. Do not enter the roundabout until there is no traffic within 5 miles of it. These are usually older folk and cannot be blamed for their sense of self preservation.

Roundabouts!!! Whoever dreamed them up was LOOPY!!![}:)]

FlySurfer said...

Personally I think there should be WAY MORE round abouts... what's the deal with putting traffic lights at every intersection!

I hear you Flysurfer, but traffic lights are incredibly cheap compared to r/abouts and sometimes there just isn't enough room to incorporate one (although those really small ones work in low traffic areas really well)

FlySurfer said...

In the car (luckily!) @ a round about... I was coming from her right.

I was on my motorbike once waiting at a round a bout - behind a lady in a huge Landcruiser with a truck style (read: kn huge) bumper bar - along the road from the right comes a pushy with right of way. I see him signal he is going through the RAB. Inexplicably as the cyclist gets to her entry she takes off and collects him very sweetly with the bumper bar! Bike goes half under Fk orf big 4WD, cyclist gets airbornes and comes down with a badly broken leg (thanks to inopropriate for city bullbar).

Cyclist is on the road writhing in extreme pain and shock. Driver gets out of her suburban insulation vehicle goes over to hime and actually starts yelling at him "What the hell did you think you were doing!?" I get off my bike and go over and tell her to fk right off away from him and make sure someone has the sense to have called the ambo/cops (no mobiles back then). Cops turn up - i give witness statement - they don't seem overly interested (speshly as i was the only witness) take my details and i never heard from them.

Soccer mom probably still thinks the cyclist should not have ruined her morning.

Just be thankful you are not riding in Perf Fly guy. Worst drivers in the country IMO.

Conversley, drive though a roundabout near my place at 6:30 in the morning and a bunch of about 100 bikes will plough on through as though you are not there ... except to hurl abuse at you for having the temerity to have the right of way.

They do this every morning and the local cops say they know it happens. The ride is timed to coincide with the morning shift change so there's no cops around to bust them.

Gorgo said...

Conversley, drive though a roundabout near my place at 6:30 in the morning and a bunch of about 100 bikes will plough on through as though you are not there ... except to hurl abuse at you for having the temerity to have the right of way.

They do this every morning and the local cops say they know it happens. The ride is timed to coincide with the morning shift change so there's no cops around to bust them.

I take it you mean the lycra wearing cyclists, that dosnt suprise me.

Yesterdee morning, adjacent to the high-end private school near my house, BMW driving soccer mom stopped in the middle of an intersection I was trying to cycle through for a chat with her 4wd piloting idiot friend. Time was 8.30am and cars everywhere. WTF!? I mean seriousy WTF!!!??? Those were my actual words to the airheads.

In Adelaide there's a roundabout that even a GPS goes WTF!!!

FlySurfer said...

What's so difficult about giving way to the people already on it or to your right.

I was already on it and to her right.

That is exactly my point.