4 ms·
The start stop traffic gave me car sickness quickly. The 280 is a 4 lane highway that, at certain times of day, adaptive cruise control gets very little workout
by fhub 3y ago
The start stop traffic gave me car sickness quickly. The 280 is a 4 lane highway that, at certain times of day, adaptive cruise control gets very little workout.
- viraptor 3y agoMay be actually getting better over time. A lot of the screen-related car sickness goes away with the refresh rate bumped up to 120Hz. These are slowly arriving to not-completely-gaming laptops fortunately.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 3y agoThat's interesting. I wonder if that's the same phenomenon that causes VR sickness with low refresh rates
- ramblerman 3y agoCar sickness happens when reading a book as well. It's your inner ear being out of sync with what you are witnessing. Which is why looking out the front window helps.
- viraptor 3y agoThere's more than one reason for the sickness to kick in. It can happen with a book, but for some people a slow refresh rate -vs- book or high refresh rate makes a massive difference.
- viraptor 3y agoIt's one of the reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_sickness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_sickness
- CalRobert 3y ago"The" 280? Has Norcal shifted to usage of definite articles for freeways?
- chikitabanana 3y agoprobably a transplant. For those interested: _Generally_, Bay Area natives will refer to highways as "280", "101", maybe even "Highway X". SoCal natives (and many others) will, _generally_ say: "the 101", "the 280", etc.
- CalRobert 3y agoI was genuinely curious, haven't lived in the bay since 2011 and it seemed like it could be shifting. When I lived in the central coast it was a clear shibboleth when meeting people.