On Sun, 1 Jan 2017 06:34 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 15:41:09 +0000, mm0fmf <n...@invalid.com> declaimed > the following: > > >>That could explain why there are so many crashes in the US, the drivers >>are looking at the road right in front of the hood/bonnet
This fortunately is not a problem in Australia, where the drivers' eyes are firmly fixed at all times to the iPhone they are holding just below the steering wheel. >>and not in the >>distance where you see XING and PED. I know some writing is written > > For the most part, if those markings are in the distance, the effects > of foreshortening makes them illegible. You have to be in a few car > lengths before you can read them (and the upper line may still be obscured > by the vehicle in front of you -- so again the odds are that you will see > the lower "PED" first, then see the upper "XING"). I wonder whether there is any objective evidence for the usefulness of text written on the road surface, as opposed to road markings (the old-fashioned zebra crossing, stripes) and/or road signs. In Melbourne, at least in the areas I frequent, we don't have many examples of text written on the road surface myself. But when I do see them, I find them more distracting than helpful. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
