[xBhp Universal Thread]: Motion Induced Blindness

[B7ACKTHORN]

Cheers!
VJ

[antz.bin]

Thanks for the credits Vijay but it seems nobody here is interested in this potentially life saving piece of info.

[SriramEfunds]

Very interesting fact that Old Fox shared when he was on visit to Chennai during the GIR. He said that at high speed we often experience that i.e 'a dog appeared from no where' is actually not the true picture, at high speed, a glance at your speedo and back to the road, you are blind for atleast a meter on the road, that's where most of the accidents where the rider misses out the moving object and end up in a panic situation.

The same goes while conering, never take your eyes off the turning road as moving object could pose a danger. Blind turns, always approach with brakable speed and anticipate on coming vehicles in to your side.

[sayank10]

at high speed, a glance at your speedo and back to the road, you are blind for atleast a meter on the road, that's where most of the accidents where the rider misses out the moving object and end up in a panic situation.

similar thing happened to me which resulted in heart in the mouth experience,
anyways anant bhai .nice piece of info.

[anthonydcruz]

Superb piece of info there Anant... thanks for sharing it 'B7ACKTHORN'

[inder.cool]

It was already talked about last week ... though a new thread wasn't created!

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/xbhp-offline-meets-g2gs/19025-official-xbhp-jaipur-rajasthan-meet-g2g-thread-25.html#post800650

[princesirohi]

that was a nice piece of information antz... but the article talks about a link which when clicked will open a photo to test ourself... the link is missing, can u rectify it.

[inder.cool]

that was a nice piece of information antz... but the article talks about a link which when clicked will open a photo to test ourself... the link is missing, can u rectify it.

Its there in the link I posted..

[dual disc 200]

Its there in the link I posted..

Posting here again for ease of other users MIB

[aargee]

And the article was first seen on TBhp here - Motion Induced Blindness - Team-BHP

[dual disc 200]

And the article was first seen on TBhp here - Motion Induced Blindness - Team-BHP

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[antz.bin]

And the article was first seen on TBhp here - Motion Induced Blindness - Team-BHP

Actually Inder bhai has correctly put up the correct source of this article.

It was first posted on 04-17-2012 at 10:14 AM

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/xbhp-offline-meets-g2gs/19025-official-xbhp-jaipur-rajasthan-meet-g2g-thread-25.html#post800650

From here I picked it up and Posted it on the Pune TBHP FB Group at 10:28 AM

ThrottleKing, who is a member at the aforementioned FB group shared it with the world at 10:54 AM

So the real credit for for first sharing this article should go to [email protected]

[princesirohi]

whosoever's article it is, its good.

ya saw that photo now. its good.

[k_9ine]

Very interesting fact that Old Fox shared when he was on visit to Chennai during the GIR. He said that at high speed we often experience that i.e 'a dog appeared from no where' is actually not the true picture, at high speed, a glance at your speedo and back to the road, you are blind for atleast a meter on the road, that's where most of the accidents where the rider misses out the moving object and end up in a panic situation.

The same goes while conering, never take your eyes off the turning road as moving object could pose a danger. Blind turns, always approach with brakable speed and anticipate on coming vehicles in to your side.

In my opinion what the original post says about motion induced blindness does not goes with what you are referring to.
Correct me if I am wrong but from what I got from the post and experinced from the link provided is that when you are concentrating on a single object at a speed then your vision actually blocks all other surrounding objects .. What you referred to in the highlighted line is because of loosing concentration at high speeds. It happened today with me when I was trying to speed up on the highway and took a moment off the road to glance at the speedo, when my eyes came back to the road the bike in front of me was slowing down to stop and was too close to me .. I somehow swerved around it but it was all because I was in speed when I took my eyes off and was already travelling .. by the time my eyes came back the bike had travelled some distance and the scenario had changed. Same goes to the cornering and the dog case ( By the way got bit by a dog today while trying to enjoy a late night slow ride )