Comments on: Test your awareness skills

By: Siouxgeonz

Siouxgeonz — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:24:05 +0000

The ad seems to have gotten a fair amount of notice in the mainstream advertising industry, too, because a: its viral spread was notable (“black swan”) b: the industry realized it was a borrowed-without-asking idea.

By: bikesgonewild

bikesgonewild — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:25:24 +0000

…hah, miserable failure !!!…

…i intentionally relaxed my eyes before i started, i had a good count going in the calculating part of my brain & then the visually aware part of my my mind initiated a thought process of “anomaly, somethings wrong or different, what else is going on here, what is it ?, duh, you’re not counting anymore, dummyyyyyy !!!”…
…& no, i wasn’t aware it was a man in a bear suit, i just knew something had changed as i lost count…

…medical professionals say this ‘ type’ of test & other brain stimulation processes will become an industry in the future as organic methods of dealing w/ & facilitating mental health problems like attention deficit disorder & alzheimers disease & other forms of dementia are dealt w/.

By: david p.

david p. — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:19:04 +0000

got the 13, missed the bear.

i thought i’d pass for sure.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:38:56 +0000

Nailed it! But I have to say that I stopped counting the passes as soon as I saw the man in a bear suit. Guess I’m not so good at multitasking.

As for drivers…here in Tucson, people are constantly speeding to get across our sprawling town and are thus paying even less attention than normal. Even in my CAR I’m afraid of people pulling out suddenly for left turns (happened to me *twice* last night alone). I’ve been lucky so far, but we’ll see…

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:22:37 +0000

Got the 13, never saw the bear.

By: FT

FT — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:46:19 +0000

I failed it flat out. As a former US Army helicopter pilot I always pride myself on situational awareness. Guess I’m getting old!

By: Jett

Jett — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:21:37 +0000

That — is indeed — a trip. I hope this doesn’t scare cyclists as much as it raises the awareness of the danger involved in operating a motor vehicle while distracted. It’s not just cyclists that are endangered by this poor and increasingly accepted behavior.

Quinn, I’ve got a few rules for different speed mismatches and traffic conditions. When traffic is below 30-35 MPH (most of my riding), I ride so I’m about a meter out which is generally where the right tire track of a car would roll. I give space to motorists when the road is wide and move closer to the center when there isn’t room or I’m near a major intersection.

On higher speed roads where traffic can pass in a second lane, I’m in the same spot.

On higher speed roads where there isn’t a second lane and there’s not much traffic, same thing.

On higher speed roads where I’ll be holding up traffic, I find another route.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:26:02 +0000

Not even close.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:45:00 +0000

Yeah, I can count, but I failed the rest of it! At least I’m not alone…

By: Quinn

Quinn — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:53:09 +0000

This brings up something that I have been thing about a lot lately- How far Into the lane should you ride?

I know to not ride in the gutter, but recently I read an article that said to ride in the ride side tire track, What part of the tire track?

I right now try to line up the end of my handlebar with white line/road edge.