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My father, in grad school, worked in a lab with a guy who pioneered a lot of this research. He showed the coil like action of these waves and how they created w
by Lost_BiomedE 14y ago
My father, in grad school, worked in a lab with a guy who pioneered a lot of this research. He showed the coil like action of these waves and how they created wrecks. Here are some other things I thought were cool:
He calculated the risk of changing lanes on a highway and estimated how much people valued their lives in dollars (usually fractions thereof) based on this one criteria.
He drove vehicles into lakes to study the escape from such a vehicle.
He tracked the eyes of truckers and found that their eyes would fall to the front of the hood and dart up a few times about 30-45s before they fell asleep and wrecked.
Another guy tried to make a talking highway by varying the distance of groves and marks on the road.
Just thought some might find this stuff interesting or amusing.
- gwillen 14y agoI'd be curious if you have data on the risk of lane-changes. (Knowing how dangerous they are would probably cause me to do fewer of them.)
- sliverstorm 14y agoI would guess the risk is not all that significant in the scheme of things. Just another one of those, "Look, you say human lives are priceless, but here I will prove they do have a price (whatever that might be)" type deals.
- bjustin 14y agoHonda made a road that plays part of the William Tell Overture[1]. It doesn't sound right, but the effect was still fun when I tried it. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_road#Civic_Musical_Road http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_road#Civic_Musical_Road