Re:Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
by pdonis on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @08:26PM
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How long does it take you to make out the black car and determine that it's a car? What if the car were coming straight at you out of darkness and you were standing in the light of a street lamp?
Also, are you looking straight at the car? Or are you looking elsewhere so that the car is in your peripheral vision, the way it would be if it were on the side of a road you were driving on?
Re:Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
by pishpash on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:11PM
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A moving object would be more visible than usual. Human vision is better at picking up scene change.
Re:Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
by Retric on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:17PM
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Not when you transition from high to low light conditions. The problem is night vision has more noise which makes movement detection far more difficult. This is made worse because the pupil can't fully dilate making the gaps seem much darker.
Re:Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
by stormthebeach on Thursday March 22, 2018 @09:28AM
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This street in particular is weird at night because the street downstream rises up, and the light from those lamps is cast at a higher point. The place she was hit is extremely dangerous because there are no lights on her, and no lights behind her.
Looking, right now, at a parking lot between two lights from a well-lit room. I can make out most of the outline of the black car in the middle of the "darkness" without any trouble. This isn't even the low light vision kicking in (which I agree isn't going to kick in if you're driving). Human vision should be able to make out the pedestrian earlier than the video footage.