Test Your Awareness
Mar
30
When you are concentrating on something, strange things are known to happen. This is an awareness video for a cyclist safety campaign. Watch this video:
The mind doesn’t always work that way you expect it to, does it?
Also, the average intelligence of YouTube commenters can be determined from this one comment (for the video above):
om3gadagg3r
cyclists should not be on the road, they did not pay fuel tax.
om3gadagg3r's friend says:
Well they don’t pay road tax as well
Posted on March 30th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Karthik says:
He/She could have meant it as a joke.
Posted on March 30th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
sharad says:
yea must be a publicity stunt!
Posted on March 30th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Arun says:
Hey, I thought the moon walking bear looked like Ragha.
Posted on March 30th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
George says:
I like it. Most people I showed it to missed it. Funny. I have to admit that I did too. Very cleverly done.
Posted on March 30th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Suren says:
but on the road you’re told to watch out for pedestrians and cyclists so you’d actually be looking for them.
Posted on April 1st, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Anusha says:
Nice video. My teachers loved it too. Not bad, Marc, people actually asked me who you were and what you’re upto and all.
Posted on April 1st, 2008 at 8:22 pm
bharath says:
i missed it completly….nice
Posted on April 1st, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Marc Z says:
sharad, that is not what Karthik meant and it’s not a publicity stunt. It is a real campaign.
Arun, the bear was too small to resemble Ragha.
George, yeah it was very well done.
Suren, the video shows that when you are concentrating on something you might not see other things. In India, we expect animals/pedestrians/cyclists to come rushing out of every side street onto the road so we drive carefully. But in developed countries they are used to empty roads.
Anusha, what are you telling those people?!
Gowtham, I know the first comment is yours.
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Anusha says:
Hehe, sorry Marc, that’s between me and the teachers.
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Suren says:
and i’m saying people do concentrate on cyclists. you can’t not spot something like a cyclist. what a waste of an otherwise nice concept.
Posted on April 4th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
sharad says:
suren u might not b completely true dude!
Posted on April 13th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
sharad says:
and its almost impossible to notive it!!
Posted on April 13th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
George says:
Indeed Sharad, for many eons I did believe that Nerus was false.
Posted on April 13th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Marc Z says:
Really? He seemed to exist up until last month.
Posted on April 14th, 2008 at 12:59 am
George says:
The key word there being ’seemed’.
Posted on April 14th, 2008 at 8:02 pm