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Do you think the 60mph UK national speed limit is too high on non trunk routes ?
Indeed visual illusions and false visual queues can directly contribute to accidents.If you have a blow out while traveling, how should you bring the vehicle to a stop?
I can think of three specific examples.
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In Manchester, there is a road which suddenly narrows to two lanes after driving away from a three-lane crossroads. Because the road-narrows are situated underneath dense trees, and because the road-edging is usually filthy, at night, you simply DO NOT SEE the wall and pavement which stick out from the nearside, because the wall is black and unlit due to the trees.
How there has never been a fatal accident there, I will never know, considering how much new cement holds the wall together. It's a classic example of how road-planner and safety-officers fail miserably in their jobs, but then install speed cameras when enough people get killed.
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I don't know whether it still exists, but in Nottingham there was a railway bridge, and the road approaching it had few markings. Consequently, you drove down what appeared to be a perfeclty good, wide road, only to discover that you were heading for a brick parapet at 40mph. A simple right arrow and a bit of cross-hatch paint would have solved the problem, but guess what?
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The safety people hadn't noticed!
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Near to where I live there are chevrons, which light up so brightly, the reflections totally blind a driver and make the nearside kerb completely invisible; and this is on a 60mph stretch of road. A simple line of red cat's eyes would do the job much better, but the safety officers decided otherwise. Their expensive and totally ineffective solution to everything is to slap speed-limits on roads where they didn't exist before, or to replace all the road-signs when they lower the limit by 10mph.
The most obvious illusions are those apparently straight-pieces of road, which have dangerous dips in them.
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On the same stretch of road with the chevrons, there is just such a dip over a blind-brow, yet the "safety-people" have yet to get to grips with it, even though they've slapped speed-restrictions at other perfectly safe stretches of the same highway.
In fact, they actually ENCOURAGE people to overtake on the approach to the blind-brow, as the solid-line and dash road-markings come to an end BEFORE IT.
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A old-lady was killed in a head on collision with a truck just over a year ago, so I would expect a speed-camera to be installed soon.
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I'm sure that extending the white lines would be cheaper, but who am I to suggest such a thing when there are so many experts?
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Makes you "THINK" doesn't it?
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There's a place on the A719 nine miles south of Ayr, known as Electric Brae.There's an optical illusion created so that car appears to be going uphill when it is in fact going down. Causes immense confusion and confused drivers can cause accidents.
Most definitely.
Particularly at night.
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For instance, a road may appear straight, but there is a dip in the road where it bends one way and then back again, which isn't apparent until you go over the brow.
Lines of trees by the side of the road may indicate that the road goes straight on, where in fact there is a sharp corner.
(The road doesn't follow the tree line).
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Sure, haven't you ever watched roadrunner cartoons, where a tunnel would be painted on a canyon wall, wilie coyote would then slam into it (ususally on rocket powered skates) & then moments later a truck would emerge from it & flatten him again?Should I worry about DOT backround check for accident with no ticket?
Here is the same illusion;
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http://www.coolopticalillusions.com/craz...
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Seriously we can all misread situations sometimes, I always try & avoid making "snap" decisions when driving for this very reason, it's imporatnt to give your brain enough time to analyse what it is seeing.
How often do you look at your rear view and side mirrors when you drive?
Although it's not related heres some great optical illusions for you; I love number 4 "rotating snake" cool!
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html...
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Also check this out;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyphco3lr...
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Okay totally avoided answering question properly but wasn't that interesting?
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Those stupid spinning wheeltrims that make a car look like it's moving when it stops at a junction, I've nearly crashed as I though the stupid bugger wasn't going to stop.Why are there no seatbelts on school buses?
Yes. especially if you are a bit tired. You may concentrate on the illusion to the exclusion of the real world for a bit too long. One night I "saw" a cross channel ferry crossing the A2 near Gravesend. In fact it was a lit-up filling station that seemed to be moving as there was a steady movement of headlights beneath it. The illusion lasted quite a few seconds till my point of view moved.More Questions & Answers ...
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