Transport for London has produced a clever series of videos urging us all to pay closer attention while driving and to look out for cyclists. See additional videos that test our observational skills here.
As a teenager, I took a drivers' education course. The instructor called paying attention to details around us "defensive driving." This of course involves watching out for other drivers - and cyclists - to make unexpected and potentially dangerous moves. The lesson still applies, as evidenced in Transport for London's excellent videos.
Well, I wasn't aware that there were supposed to be changes; why should I? As for the cyclists, when they learn to observe the rules of the road as motorists are obliged to, there will most likely be fewer accidents. It is thanks to my powers of observation that a certain individual is alive today: a cyclist, black, in black clothes, who like many of his ilk thought that he had a God-give, right to ride through a red light. Of course had I hit him, being white and a motorist I would have been condemned to the exterior darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth...
Posted by: Paul de Raymond Leclercq | 23 November 2008 at 21:43
Brilliant. :)
Posted by: Krupo | 22 November 2008 at 09:39
That was brilliant! Point well taken.
Posted by: Carla | 20 November 2008 at 18:01
Ha! Professor Plum in the library! No?
This was so clever, Tara - and I am not very observant this morning - I missed nearly everything that changed! Good thing I'm not a detective. Thanks for the chuckle~XOXO
Posted by: tinker | 20 November 2008 at 16:32
I didn't get to count all of them, but it was fun observing the changing "scenery". Even more fun the part when all those moves are revealed! *giggle*
Posted by: Merisi's | 20 November 2008 at 13:31
I did driver's school in Toronto, and emphasis was on defensive driving. I'll never regret doing the course.
xox
Posted by: Colette | 19 November 2008 at 19:02