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    Amazing tech never fails to amaze me

    This takes a bit of watching, but it carries a great message.



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    I was kinda expecting something along these lines, but when it happened, DANG

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    Quote Originally Posted by sugilite View Post
    I was kinda expecting something along these lines, but when it happened, DANG
    It was the no head check to the right when he pulled out that I noticed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rastuscat View Post
    This takes a bit of watching, but it carries a great message.

    You're welcome.
    that's been around so long it's incredible it's even filmed in colour

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    Quote Originally Posted by rastuscat View Post
    It was the no head check to the right when he pulled out that I noticed.
    Yep, I suspected something like what was going to happen, and when he did not look to the right, I started wincing right away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jellywrestler View Post
    that's been around so long it's incredible it's even filmed in colour
    I see it like an early warning of what has happened to cars of today. People now rely on auto headlights to dip their lights, adaptive cruise to maintain a safe following distance, reversing cameras and sensors to tell them how close they can get to the fence behind them.

    All these things are good, but they only do what we should be able to do ourselves.

    The trouble is, if people rely too much on these advanced driver safety systems they forget how to do the stuff the systems do.

    Or, at least, they stop doing them automatically. Like head checks.

    I first used that video years ago as a training aid in presentations. And if anything, it's become even more relevant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rastuscat View Post
    I see it like an early warning of what has happened to cars of today. People now rely on auto headlights to dip their lights, adaptive cruise to maintain a safe following distance, reversing cameras and sensors to tell them how close they can get to the fence behind them.

    All these things are good, but they only do what we should be able to do ourselves.

    The trouble is, if people rely too much on these advanced driver safety systems they forget how to do the stuff the systems do.

    Or, at least, they stop doing them automatically. Like head checks.

    I first used that video years ago as a training aid in presentations. And if anything, it's become even more relevant.
    I drive/operate multiple vehicle types, some with tech and some without. Always considered my self old school love a good play around 18spd manual transmission still. But tech just makes life so much easier and safer.
    One bike has all the bells and whistles and other doesn’t, I did worry initially about will I fall into trap you mention but the brain seems to have some kind of muscle memory and know hey it needs to pay more attention today.
    To me technology is about spending your concentration dollars wisely but sadly average joe prob wastes the bandwidth looking at their phone instead.
    You have to wonder with kids not really walking to school anymore are the masses missing out on being taught look right,left look right again before crossing at critical age where it’s cemented in brain foundations.
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    I must say Being off on ACC and having time to walk to the Gym. Means I have realized when I am riding or driving I was not unlucky to always encounter the small number of drivers who don't indicate at roundabouts but is more like 1/2 to a 1/3 that don't indicate and funny a enough it is new or near new vehicles. And it may be for the same reasons as mention here.
    Compare Pornography now to 50 years ago.
    Then extrapolate 50 years into the future.
    . . . That shit's Nasty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by R650R View Post
    You have to wonder with kids not really walking to school anymore are the masses missing out on being taught look right,left look right again before crossing at critical age where it’s cemented in brain foundations.
    Nailed one of the critical problems with our age.

    Parents don't let their kids ride bikes to school because the roads are too dangerous. So kids don't learn about gap selection, pace judgement etc coz mum and dad in their Fendalton tractor (Range Rover) make all the decisions for them.

    Allowing kids to experience decision making is slowly disappearing, as AI takes that chore away from us.

    I'm starting (or continuing) to sound like an old curmudgeon. Possibly because I'm an old curmudgeon.

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