Situational blindness. Interesting article. - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

02-17-2004, 08:25 AM

A subject that has come up here before is car-bike accidents where the
driver says something like "I just didn't see him, he came out of
nowhere." I've often thought that this is due to the ability of
people to overlook something that's right under their noses, because
they just weren't expecting to see something like that. I'm not
excepting myself, I know it can apply to me too.

I thought this article in the latest "Scientific American" shed an
interesting light on this. It's not about accidents involving cars
and bikes, although it does briefly mention them. It's about just how
blind we can be to the obvious.

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