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At some point, the flashing lights also stop being an aide to the emergency vehicle and turns into a hazard, since the lights flashing like that will capture all of my attention and focus. And if I were to drive a car (no I don't have a license or any plan to ever get one due to the epilepsy issue) I'd quickly run into the issue of "look where you want to go" turning into me unconsciously steering the car towards the emergency vehicle. I base this claim on the constantly repeated mantra backed up by footage and whatever studies they reference on "Canada's Worst Driver". I'm not really in a hurry to verify my claim here with personal experimentation though, so grain of salt until someone else can back me up on this assumption.
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SerthVarnee posted:Mind if I send you a PM? I'd love to talk further about this stuff without completely derailing the thread here. You can go ahead but I won't be able to give you too much of a detailed response. I've only been with the company and in the industry for 4 years and much of the stuff I deal with is bridging and automating the gap between sales and engineering so I know enough for a simple explanation but nothing detailed besides what I can gleam off of in our documentation. I can pass any questions you have to the relevant people, though. Also, everything I know and we do is US-centric and specifically East coast US since that's where our market currently is.
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Sagebrush posted:I agree that they really are going overboard with the number of lights and flashing rate these days. Sure, you want emergency vehicles to be visible. But I saw a cop the other day on the side of the road, and her cruiser has literally like 12 separate ultra bright white light bars facing forwards and flashing lights in at least another eight locations. I assume it's an ever-escalating attempt to get the attention of all the people who ignore or fail to yield to emergency vehicles, not realizing that it's just pure idiocy rather than them not noticing blaring sirens and flashing lights. The dude who rear-ends a cop pulled over on the shoulder is probably gonna do that no matter what.
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SerthVarnee posted:At some point, the flashing lights also stop being an aide to the emergency vehicle and turns into a hazard, since the lights flashing like that will capture all of my attention and focus. And if I were to drive a car (no I don't have a license or any plan to ever get one due to the epilepsy issue) I'd quickly run into the issue of "look where you want to go" turning into me unconsciously steering the car towards the emergency vehicle. This is one reason drunk and impaired drivers love to ram into police cars.
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SerthVarnee posted:At some point, the flashing lights also stop being an aide to the emergency vehicle and turns into a hazard, since the lights flashing like that will capture all of my attention and focus. And if I were to drive a car (no I don't have a license or any plan to ever get one due to the epilepsy issue) I'd quickly run into the issue of "look where you want to go" turning into me unconsciously steering the car towards the emergency vehicle. yeah, it's target fixation - if your attention is drawn towards a thing and you're like "i better not hit that" but you keep staring directly at it, subconsciously you're going to go directly into the thing you're staring at. it's better to give the thing a little side eye so you know it is there but that it doesn't dominate your focus. as stated above, this is why drunk drivers end up crashing into the extremely visible police car on the side of the road iirc this was observed during ww2 when it was noticed that pilots attacking a target on the ground would get so involved in flying at and killing that thing that they would realize, too late, that they were too close to the ground to safely pull away Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Feb 4, 2023 |
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Sagebrush posted:I agree that they really are going overboard with the number of lights and flashing rate these days. Sure, you want emergency vehicles to be visible. But I saw a cop the other day on the side of the road, and her cruiser has literally like 12 separate ultra bright white light bars facing forwards and flashing lights in at least another eight locations. Yeah, I drive home from work right when all the bars close in my area, so I get to see a lot of cop cars with lights on on the shoulder, and the modern LED ones are retina searing bright, they just completely annihilate my night vision, they could definitely move to having a couple red and blue solid warning lights at a decent brightness, then seperate flashers the driver could hit as a "get the gently caress out of my way/pull over". Also, the journo that wrote that stupid fear-monger article about the Brit submarine from a few pages back needs to be shot into the loving sun.
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Ror posted:I assume it's an ever-escalating attempt to get the attention of all the people who ignore or fail to yield to emergency vehicles, not realizing that it's just pure idiocy rather than them not noticing blaring sirens and flashing lights. The dude who rear-ends a cop pulled over on the shoulder is probably gonna do that no matter what. The new hotness around here for grocery stores is to put a little trailer in one of the spots in the parking lot and hoist a pole from it to put cameras onto. Every single one of them is equipped with a flashing blue light for no reason. I assume it's to say "Ooooh scary it might be the cops" but now I have yet another reason to hate those things.
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According to north American rescue the swimmer just got certified and is still in training. So he definitely got a crazy one for his first rescue (both survived)
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LifeSunDeath posted:https://teddit.net/vids/m8ugfzr0t4ga1.mp4 they put the nozzle in a rod holder
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shame on an IGA posted:they put the nozzle in a rod holder JFC
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shame on an IGA posted:they put the nozzle in a rod holder Another qualified captain!
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shame on an IGA posted:they put the nozzle in a rod holder I'm sure alcohol played no part in this.
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shame on an IGA posted:they put the nozzle in a rod holder the rod holder is full of nerve endings
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Sagebrush posted:I agree that they really are going overboard with the number of lights and flashing rate these days. The ambulances around me turn on like four flashing lights when they step on the brakes. Just driving down the city street, normal, FLASH!, normal, FLASH!, turn into the gas station. You know what? It is starting to make me not think of flashing lights as emergency lights!
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Captain Hygiene posted:
*Sigh* If we had better sex ed in this country people would realize this sort of mating behavior is perfectly normal.
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I just worked on a project that added CO and methane LEL monitoring to a room, the system also came with a stacklight that would flash if the gas got too high. The stacklight had to be epileptic friendly, just in case.
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haveblue posted:He was really not a fan huh Sometime in college, I developed a habit of adding -tastic to everything. Then, one day, while training on a new job, I had to take a freight elevator down to a storage space under the dorms that opened into a huge crawlspace that was just full of fans that we would rent out to students staying for summer session in the dorms. I immediately blurted out, "drat, this room is fan-tastic!"
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/ohshidt/status/1621719287386841088?s=20&t=nF75RQm0yIKIV4sWTudjiQ And the opposite... https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7195578262129528070
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I would put money down that he had hit his head on that fan at least 30 times before this.
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haveblue posted:He was really not a fan huh Boo! I say Boo!
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wheatpuppy posted:*Sigh* If we had better sex ed in this country people would realize this sort of mating behavior is perfectly normal. Mistakes into miracles! By the comments, the visibility was only 200 meters when this happened. I think I can imagine how the recorded audio from the second plane sounds like *screams*
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