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Re: Amtrak train destroys minivan carrying 6 people |
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Posted by Steamdriven on Tue Jun 28 13:47:35 2016, in response to Re: Amtrak train destroys minivan carrying 6 people, posted by New Flyer #857 on Tue Jun 28 10:11:32 2016. " I'm saying that the tiny white x-shaped R/R sign doesn't cut it "100% agreed. That's easy to miss, and it doesn't convey the level of hazard. Visually, the little RxR sign registers to this East Coaster as "How quaint, there must have been a railroad here 100 years ago, and there's still tracks". Of course, I will stop at the stop sign because I'm aware that those track might have come back into use, use which could be once a week or once an hour. But most people have no interest in such trivia; if they've never seen a train on X set of tracks, said trains do not exist. That's how we are wired to think. Consider that one passes tens of thousands of road signs per year, the average human will have some of them pass un-noticed. If they saw, registered and were conscious of every sign, they'd miss more vehicles and pedestrians. The mind discards a great deal of stuff that comes in through your eyes; if it didn't, your ancestors would have been eaten by bears while noticing every pine cone. |
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