Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:03:23 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Wow! how bout this guy?
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'conspicuity' ?
'normally' before various factors started to degrade how we use American
English ..
the word would be 'consipicousness.'
well whatiya knonw .........dictionary.com shows it, right after
'conspicuousness' and mentions the relective tape connection. I guess the
tape people brought the word into usage.
Can I get some help with enhancing the conspicuity of my slower diesel
vangagons please ?
( sounds werid )
At least it's not a noun verbized !
lol.
oh........PS, on what started this thread.
I think a rise , like the top of a hill, was a factor in this near mishap.
Needless to say ..........any time you are approaching a rise
............there is a blind spot right there in front of you .
Like if you approach at 60, and your stopping distance from 60 mph is say
150 feet.....
you come over the crest, there's something 100 feet past the crest that you
couldn't see until reaching the crest ....
you are actually overdriving for what you can see ahead.
I call these 'moving blind spots' .........like when a huge truck is turning
across in front of you, and you are just 'sure' there's nothing behind the
truck, so you act like there isn't ......but sometimes there is ! - that
kind of 'moving blind spot.'
same when you are downhill from a crest .......you're in someones blind spot
at they come over the crest - a spot you never want to be stopped in of
course.
And ......I see cops dumb enough to sit by the side of the freeway doing
paperwork or whatever.....
with cars wizzing by just a few feet away at 60 to 70 .......that is very,
very unneccsary and unwise exposure to risk.
A famous speed skier got killed that way.........VW rabbit broke down on a
freeway at night, he crashed out in the back seat ......
a drunk came along and.......you know.
so watch from those moving or 'invisible' blind spots !!
We need every loyal and didicated vanagon owner/operator/home technican we
can get !
glad you were safe Don.
scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: Wow! how bout this guy?
> At 09:02 PM 7/26/2009, Don Hanson wrote:
>> My S.O. did that to her horse trailer (the red and white strip) and
>> it
>>IS really highly visible. She used some reflective tape like you see on
>>semi trucks, alternating red and white rectangles, maybe 3" wide. Found
>>it
>
> 'S what the truck people call -- no lie -- "conspicuity
> tape!" Google conspicuity, which apparently has become a word in the
> last ten years or so, and you'll find lots of sources for the stuff.
>
> --
> David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '89 Po' White Star "Scamp"
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