Attentiveness and some explanation for SMIDSYS!

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First off, watch this and follow the instructions on the video:
Appreciate this has been going around for a while, but g'wan, give it a go again anyway!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQmdoK_ZfY
Results are discussed below - please watch first .

Then for some more explanation of that, this a presentation about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59js7dcie08






























Nothing to see here! (No, really.)

[Redoko]

I counted the correct amount of passes. 16. Then I was like, well that was a crock of sh!t. How hard was it?


And then he said did you notice the gorilla and a player leave. Fcuk off was there a gorilla there.

Rewind...

https://zedpop.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/1344310069_6b360890aa.jpg
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Indeed!
And thus I think a good explanation of why we do get so many cases of bikes not being seen - people aren't actively looking for them, they're paying attention actively looking for cars, which they can do quite well if they actually try (counting the passes).

[Hetzer]

What a crock of shit. The task given, of specifically counting specific passes from a specific type of person, in no way equates with driving a vehicle and monitoring other traffic. It would be more comparable to say "Drive from point a to point b and count all red cars that make left turns."
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[goto10]

I've seen the basketball one before and knew a gorilla would be there thus I looked for it (and saw it this time obviously), the other 2 bits were unexpected (and missed) though, good vid!
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[P.addy]

OK...so what if you noticed everything... Judging with my history on bikes... I shouldn't have even seen the video, let alone a ball being thrown around

[olionel]

never done this before.. counted right, and saw the gorilla and did wonder was he there at the start??? nearly put me off... but no chance of spotting the gradual colour change, I don't think the brain can cope tbh.. it's not even a sharp change it just does it very gradual.
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[stinkwheel]

It was more an exercise in misdirection than perception.

I did spot the gorilla.

However. If they'd given instructions to count how many times the BLACK team passed the ball, I bet nobody would miss either the gorilla or the missing player.

The background colour change was gradual and slight keeping the same saturation. If it had suddenly gone blue, again, people would have noticed.

It was a deliberate and carefully designed trick and to me doesn't prove very much of anything.

It's like claiming you made an object disappear by saying "Look over there! a flying pig!" and putting it in your pocket.
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[Rogerborg]

It does illustrate that you can look right through a gorilla sporting a massive erection[1] while focussing on something else.

Whether that explains why people miss bikes while looking out for cars, buses, trucks and such is a slightly different question.

I'm minded to agree that it does, and that it's because they don't see us as proper road traffic, but I wouldn't put money on it.

Aside, I'm sure most of us have seen this video of the anti-SMIDSY weave. I initially thought "what a muppet", but I have to admit that I've been trying it out recently.

I've got no empirical evidence that it helps, but it does fit in with my philosophy that it doesn't matter how daft other road users think you are, as long as they see and acknowledge you.

Doing it regularly also get you into the habit of treating junctions and the risk of SMIDSYs seriously: actually taking action, rather than just telling yourself to watch out for Micra Man sharpens the mind wonderfully, I think.






















[1] If you checked the vid to see, it was me that was sporting the massive erection, not the gorilla.
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[ajbsmirnoff]

So the test proves people may miss a gorilla suit where balls are being thrown.

[The Artist]

The video proves that people ignore things, they are not looking for...which makes sense I suppose.

I don't think it is anywhere near the same as being on the roads. I look out for everything from Horses to car and from pot holes to diesel.

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[Hetzer]

Smidsy-weave...what utter bollocks. Never mind that the first jobsworth pig to see it would have you over for "without due care".

A slack-jaw-disruptive flashing light is what I used, red-green-blue (cop-light blue).
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[fatpies]

A cooler mind trick is this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lilac-Chaser.gif

Watch the cross in the middle, what happens to the dots?
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[Rogerborg]

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Oh and presuming I'm on a bike with a loud exhaust, in those situations I tend to pull the clutch in and blip the exhaust - as it should be fairly hard for that to be misunderstood as "you can go now".
Also consider beeping the horn, but I generally consider that a bit 'rude'.

[goto10]

[G]

I actually use the Horn more in the lorry.

But it is a big loud air horn.

Which I suspect just shows my principals are rather thin and easily corrupted by toys!

[stinkwheel]

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[Rogerborg]

Mmm, actually I should clarify that I don't do that exaggerated amount of direction-changing weaving, I just do some gentle lateral movements, aiming to end up positioned well away from the cage at the critical point in case I need to do a proper swerve.
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[blade023]

Some interesting stuff there. As for that weaving thing, I'd have to say that I probably wouldn't do that to attract attention to myself. As mentioned before, there is a horn for doing just that, and even though flashing the high beams is taken to mean "I'm letting you pass" according to driving theory it's supposed to be used only to make other road users aware of your presence.

It's something I think about a lot when I'm on the roads, whether other road users can see me and have noticed me there. Going back to the horn, an interesting point I was told by an instructor is that I should "use the horn if necessary, to make other road users aware of you, but rather than one blast which can be aggressive, do two short beeps." So more of a 'toot toot' which is 'friendlier.'
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