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You often confuse motorcycles for cars?
by cglace 6y ago
You often confuse motorcycles for cars?
- mstade 6y agoAt night, sure. Many times I've met a car with a broken headlight, only realizing it's not a motorcycle as we're passing. I don't know if this happened at night, but visibility can be reduced for other reasons as well.
- pixelbash 6y agoIn those cases were you certain what you saw was a motorcycle before realizing otherwise? Or did you wait until you passed to be sure?
- IgorPartola 6y agoThis one is scary to me, as a motorcycle rider. The other one that’s not fun: some motorcycles have two separate headlights on the front (low and high beams) and can be wired so that both can be on at once. What are you looking at? A car that’s really far away or a motorcycle that’s really close? Please watch out for motorcyclists. The blindness people have for us is astonishing. And terrifying.
- hazeii 6y agoI've had that on a bicycle. The bike had two small side by side halogens on the handlebars, I was on a main road when a car pulled straight out of a side turning and into the side of me. I released afterwards he'd glanced down the road, seen two small lights and assumed it was a car far enough away for him to pull out. On motorbikes I've had drivers in side roads look me in the eye and then pull out. On occasion I've ended up having words, and it's always "Sorry mate I didn't see you".
- kingaillas 6y ago>it's always "Sorry mate I didn't see you". Ah, the SMIDSY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqQBubilSXU&t=387s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqQBubilSXU&t=387s That video covers the optical illusion that leads to it and what motorcycles can do.
- cglace 6y agoWell yeah, when you remove 99% of the visual information it can be hard to tell if it's a motorcycle.
- irlib 6y agoI do. Those 3 wheel cars/bikes in California...