MAGIC EYES: Would THIS Optical Illusion Slow YOU Down?

If you have been to the movies recently, I am sure that you have had the chance to see a flick in normal format or 3-D.

Like many things, although it has been around before, it seems that it too -- like wine -- aged finer.

But here's an intriguing take on 3-D. Implementing it on roadways to encourage safer driving. I don't know how nor do I particularly care but in West Vancouver a 3-D image of a little girl chasing a ball will be making an appearance.

Can this be more effective than paint on the ground? I am skeptical.

Oh yeah, and it costs $15,000 to operate. Is this a practical measure for upcoming safety tech?

It’s already on the big screen, but now a 3D image is being used on the streets of West Vancouver in an attempt to jolt reckless drivers into reality.

Motorists travelling on 22nd Street in West Vancouver will be confronted with a 3D image of a little girl chasing a ball in the street starting next Tuesday. The girl will be an optical illusion, but the scenario is very real, according to David Dunne of the BCAA Traffic Safety Foundation.

‘We need to expect the unexpected because anything could happen, whether it is a 3D image on the road ... or whether it’s a live child or a dog running in front of the car, these are all things that we have to be able to control for in a vehicle,” Mr. Dunne said...

[Source: The Globe and Mail]

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Escalade1 - 9/6/2010 4:08:08 PM

+5 Boost

this could make an elderly driver break hard and get rear ended, not a good ideal.

Larrybel2000 - 9/6/2010 4:21:00 PM

+5 Boost

Or somebody would get use to it and when a kid really did run out they would hit it.

WorldofLuxury - 9/6/2010 4:53:26 PM

+6 Boost

This is wrong and can go wrong in so many ways...

synx - 9/7/2010 9:04:01 AM

+1 Boost

I don't know about America but here in New Zealand there are cardboard cut-outs of police cars on the sides of some motorways. Apparently they are really effective at getting people to slow down.

http://tvnz.co.nz/content/966917/423466.html

mik73 - 9/7/2010 4:42:12 PM

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It's not 'Avatar' 3D, it is a painted image. Think of those 'painted truck trailor' emails you've probably received, and forwarded, a few dozen times already.

And yes, this has all the makings of a tragic disaster in the making. Someone who isn't paying attention looks up, sees this 'little girl', panics, and veers into a pile of *real* kids standing on the curb. Laywers rejoice...

Or we become desensitized to it after running over the 'kid' 500 times.

Or most likely: We get tired of fixing the image each night after graffiti artists render them nude, or holding a dildo, or turn them into aliens, or whatever....