[ExI] Aquarium of the Bay Introduces New AR and VR Attractions

[William Flynn Wallace]

We have a club.  In all the years, we have never heard of one being struck
from behind.



spike


Thanks, interesting info.  Four?  That's a lot of maintenance.  Antique
bike tag?


Easy solution:  go faster than those behind you and slower than those in
front of you!


bill w



On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 9:47 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
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> *To:* ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Aquarium of the Bay Introduces New AR and VR
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> The freeway is wide, so I know they won't hit me from behind,   spike
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> The short time I had a motorcycle I discovered that some people just don't
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> Is this an ongoing problem for cyclists*?*
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> Always a problem.  Bicycles are even worse.  A prole has to ride as if he
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> Our visual cortex or whatever it is that allows us to do pattern
> recognition while we are driving is tuned to horizontal objects.  A tree
> never grows in the middle of the road (anywhere outside of Palo Alto CA)
> and a power pole is never placed there, so our minds somehow disregard
> vertical objects, but are very tuned to horizontal objects such as a bumper
> of a Detroit in front of us.  This effect was discovered by Dr. Hugh
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> Bikes manufacturers recognized that motorcycles are mostly vertical
> features, which result in drivers failing to see, even if the frontal area
> is similar (Lotus drivers present less frontal area than many bikes, but
> they are more likely to be seen.)  The bike manufacturers experimented with
> adding horizontal features on the backs of some of their models, such as
> the touring bikes:
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> This is an aft view of a rare breed called the Suzuki Cavalcade, which was
> built only three years in the 1980s.  Only about 9000 of them were ever
> built.  I own four of them.
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> We have a club.  In all the years, we have never heard of one being struck
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