Apr 1 2008Video: Road Safety Awareness Test
I think somebody else might have sent me a tip about this video, and if so I apologize for not being able to find it again. My inbox is so jam-packed with requests for my bank account information and advertisements for incorrectly spelled dong-enhancing pills that I may have deleted it. Anyway, this is a public service video for road safety. I don't want to ruin it, but I thought it was pretty neat when I watched it. And no, it's not an April Fools' joke. Nor are there any boobs.
Thanks to Jered, who is awesome as hell and a great cyclist, for the tip
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Reader Comments
1. Scott - April 1, 2008 12:50 PM
I must admit, I didn't see the moon walking bear. However, I was dead on right with the 13 passes. I'm still so stoked that I think the message is wasted on the likes of me. Now, had there been boobs in the video......
2. RandomNigel - April 1, 2008 12:52 PM
I saw this a week or two ago.
Miraculously enough, I saw the bear AND kept count.
It was really just a "...wtf?" moment, before going on to count some more.
3. SmokingGirl - April 1, 2008 1:00 PM
Lol...first time around, I hadn't seen the bear. I had to re-watch it to see if it was a trick.
I was, however, correct that 13 passes had been made because I'm awesome in my counting-over-ten prowess. Pwn.
4. jamesy5466 - April 1, 2008 1:06 PM
This is based on an experiment demonstrating inattentional blindness done at the University of Illinois. Except it was originally a woman in a gorilla suit.
http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html
5. guate6 - April 1, 2008 1:14 PM
Same here. I counted fine but failed to look for the bear...although I do watch for cyclists when I'm driving, and I myself being a cyclist, do my best to be seen by vehicles.
6. Dan - April 1, 2008 1:41 PM
@6.
It's alot easier for you to be seen by vehicles when you're smeared across your windshield. Keep that in ,ind.
7. leg3nd - April 1, 2008 2:37 PM
Lol i seen the bear and stopped counting..
8. steve - April 1, 2008 10:43 PM
bicyclists can eat my nuts....
9. Brad123 - July 23, 2008 7:36 PM
I usually watch out for cyclists, but I may on occaison, hit one if distracted by a moon walking bear, and two groups of people passing a ball.