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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: SMIDSY - Motion Camouflage and the Looming Effect |
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Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 12:32
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| To summarise: it has been suggested that when an object is moving towards you such that it doesn’t move against its background, the object either blends into the background or appears to be stationary. Not knocking the researcher, but why have we got to the stage where we need research to tell us t... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: SMIDSY - Motion Camouflage and the Looming Effect |
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Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 12:24
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SafeSpeed wrote: My only real reservation is that (as a car driver) it's never happened to me. What's the explanation for that then?
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Wot hasn't?
Not seeing someone?
But how can you know! |
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Forum: Polls Topic: Confrontational or Conversational |
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Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 12:02
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| Tricky. I'd have said moderately successful because they like to deliver oversimplified messages ........ Not sure how your voting options allow me to express that. I'm trying to keep it simple but not oversimplified. :wink: So you're voting successful, all we need to know is are their messages con... |
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Forum: Polls Topic: Confrontational or Conversational |
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Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 03:06
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| It takes all kinds, but why do you think that in general the likes of Brake, Transport 2000, Reclaim the Streets, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Swampy and the anti-roads protesters, Anti-hunt protesters, Environmentalists in general, and the anti-car lobby in particular have got where they are t... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: speed cameras |
| bogush |
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Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 00:43
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Replies: 40
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Scientific Standards Authority |
| bogush |
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 23:28
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Replies: 12
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spankthecrumpet wrote: Whatever happened to peer review?
Isn't t' Bliar scrapping it?
Oh, that's the other kind of peer! 
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Then again.................. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: speed cameras |
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 20:08
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| Show me any pro camera DfT document and I'll show you carefully selected data, flawed science and oversimplified foundations. Well, I've been reading this site and corresponding with this forum for long enough not to doubt this claim for one second. But one thing nags away at me...why? Why would th... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: speed cameras |
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 19:37
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| Paul i think thats a bit biased don't you think. You will brainwash him if you carry on Also try http://www.cumbriasafetycameras.org and follow the link pages to the other partnerships. All of whom say speed doesn't kill, speed cameras are counter productive, partnerships are a waste of public mone... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: speed cameras |
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 19:26
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| Bias is a strong word Paul, it could be argued that your work is biased towards your own viewpoint couldn't it? Besides, if Johnson is writing a critical analysis, he won't get very far just presenting one 'side' of the argument, he'll have to go and search out the party line from somewhere even if... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: speed cameras |
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 19:14
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| Paul i think thats a bit biased don't you think. You will brainwash him if you carry on Feel free to point out the brainwashing here, JJ: Here's a webpage rubbishing the speed cameras "statistics" and giving a very good explanation of what is really happening. And this guy is a speed cameras suppor... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Can it be true |
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 00:41
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| All agree that holding half a small apple whilst steering did not compromise their control a car in second gear turning into a driveway, (angles varying 45 to 90 degrees ) nor did it compromise controls reversing out of the driveway. :o :?: :? :!: :shock: Apart from putting the car into a 180 degre... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Social Glue |
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 23:58
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Replies: 209
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| I think you and I look at the hazards on the road in very different ways. You look at it as an entirely man made situation, and therefore those that creat it should be responsible for modifying it. That's right. The great giveaway is that you cannot walk anywhere on the streets without stopping, lo... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Social Glue |
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 23:38
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| Children cannot called to account for accidents that have happened to them. So you're the one encouraging kids to "reclaim" the streets because the driver is responsible for their safety and and no one can touch them for jaywalking! And people think that using child soldiers and even child suicide ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Social Glue |
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 23:27
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| All road users show due respect for other persons. Yes, I can dig that idea . But in reality, children pedestrians do not have equal power of death as drivers, and are not encased in steel. And your point is? That you run red lights across the path of HGV's, dodge round the barriers on level crossi... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Social Glue |
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 23:22
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Replies: 209
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| .....Cognitive The corollary is that most people actually drive as well as you do, or at least as well as you think you do. You are confused between discussing the matter, and discussing ourselves. BTW: Are you accusing me of thinking I am a good driver! Any reason why you chose to selectively "quo... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Social Glue |
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 23:16
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Replies: 209
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| All road users show due respect for other persons. Yes, I can dig that idea . But in reality, children pedestrians do not have equal power of death as drivers, and are not encased in steel. So what? And who says so? Firstly, I can drive into a child and kill it. However a child can run in front of ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Social Glue |
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 23:08
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| Look, we only have 10,000 days left if we carry on like this. People will have plenty of time to disagee with me when they are dead. And it won't be long, judging by this report on CO2 . And tailpipes are only one of the things wrong with cars. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. But CO2 only absorbs particular wavel... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: Daily Express, front page, 27th January 2005 |
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 21:24
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| HEADLINE Non police drivers kill thousands! Do they? There's about 3,500 killed "on the roads" pa. About a thousand are pedestrians of whom 85% kill themselves, so that's 2650. Less 30 for police drivers, say a dozen pedestrians and cyclists killed by cyclists, and 5% down to mechanical failure and... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Social Glue |
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 23:48
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Replies: 209
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| .....Cognitive The corollary is that most people actually drive as well as you do, or at least as well as you think you do. You are confused between discussing the matter, and discussing ourselves. BTW: Are you accusing me of thinking I am a good driver! Any reason why you chose to selectively "quo... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Social Glue |
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 23:17
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| Hm, how remiss of you, SafeSpeed - you seem to have left out the cost of "loss" from your calculation - that's why it is easy. Now, think of all the things that we have lost because of car domination, and you will find that road safety is not so easy to measure after all! Did someone mention arse a... |
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