Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

Re:Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) by cosmotron on Friday January 19, 2018 @03:04PM (#16189298)

There's another neat example of this: asking someone with years of car-driving experience to hold their hands out as if gripping a steering wheel and mime the motions necessary to change lanes. [1] The steps are:

1. Turn the steering wheel towards the lane you wish to enter,

2. Re-center the steering wheel,

3. Counter-steer the same amount as in step 1.

Step 3 is what people tend to forget about.

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-37-the-steeri...

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Re:Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) by iClaudiusX on Saturday January 20, 2018 @08:57AM (#16193327)

You skipped the turn signal, which seems accurate to most of the drivers I see on the road.

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Re:Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) by pwinnski on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:22PM (#16190419)

For step 3, I almost always loosen my grip on the wheel and let it mostly straighten myself. So miming wouldn't include nearly as much counter-steering, even if I did remember to mime the whole process.

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