@FGD135 The music accompanying that video … well the guitar soloist shredded it. (Sorry. Not Sorry.)
We are in danger of losing a perfectly cromulent word from the language if this keeps up. (It would not have been in a queue, it would have been cued up - set to start at a pre-determined cue point.)
Some seriously hilarious videos there. Everyone should click through. The corgi finding a solution was wonderful. ETA I’ve scrolled as far as August, now (some doozies in Sept) and am still crying with laughter. And don’t assume that all you are seeing is all there is to see … wait to the end on some - especially the floating bollards video.
From the WBA twitter feed
I, for one, will welcome our new bollard overlords.
that makes me think about all those ads measuring 0 to 60 in 5.5 seconds ( or whatever.) because those cars are zipping in there fast.
you can do a lot of damage at 60 mph, or even at 30 mph. the ability to accelerate quickly might be part of the reason some of those cars in the walmart parking lot are so destroyed.
( apparently tesla’s model is is < 2 seconds; as if that were a good thing for the pedestrians of the world )
It was fun to watch them (about 6 guys) trying to direct the driver how to get the trailer off the bollard. I was waiting for the hydrant to explode. It went on for about a half an hour.One by one they all gave up. They had to call in the heavy machinery. Did not get to see that action.
I was thinking, “aren’t most A-pillars angled, so you should be able to see something vertical?” but I guess from the driver’s seat the driver’s side A-pillar is mostly vertical.
Sure, the pole is probably harder to see because it is narrow, so is this on the bingo sheet: Make the bollard wider or group some in a 2-3 foot triangle/square/pentagon/circle so at least one can be seen around an A-pillar.
Personally, I’d like to see a miniature merry go round spinning around on top of the bollard. This time of year, they could decorate it like a Christmas tree.
Once you notice that A-pillar blindness is a thing, it’s interesting and surprising to see exactly how much of your field of view is getting blocked. It’s more than you think! (Lately I’ve been experimenting with reference points that get hidden behind my A-pillar; for instance, it can fully obscure the neighbor’s 3-foot by 4-foot window when I park in my driveway.)
And the amount blocked by the right pillar is even moreso, though this is usually less of a risk in everyday driving (with the sometimess tragic exception of completely blocking line-of-sight to a bicyclist coming from the right at an intersection, as @tcg550 alludes to).
I have a background in Human Computer Interaction, so I am familiar with all those principles. I don’t think they apply here, personally, but we’re all judging the situation from a handful of photos at weird angles so none of us can say with any authority where the issues lie.
