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- From: randy@megatek.com (Randy Davis)
- Subject: Re: HELMETS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.174508.19505@megatek.com>
- Sender: randy@megatek.com (Randy Davis)
- Reply-To: randy@megatek.com
- Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
- References: <1992Nov19.033924.25567@spdc.ti.com> <1992Nov19.200105.12133@megatek.com> <1992Nov19.221352.17753@csrd.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:45:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.221352.17753@csrd.uiuc.edu> leung@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Bruce Leung) writes:
- |I have to agree with Mike on this one. Peripheral vision as defined
- |by my Webster's New World Dictionary (and how I've always thought of
- |it) is:
- |
- | the area of vision lying just outside the line of direct sight
- |
- |My own working definition is that something is in my periph. vision if
- |I can see it without looking at it. The outer edges of my viewport
- |are not in my periph. vision.
-
- Read that JUST a little closer, Bruce... Are you defining "direct sight"
- as merely "forward sight"? It sure looks like it, which is incorrect. If
- you turn your eyes and TRY to see your viewport, and still can't see the
- edges of your viewport, then perhaps your helmet does NOT restrict YOUR
- side-to-side peripheral vision - but you are the only one that I know of
- that fits this description, and perhaps ought to think about not driving or
- riding anymore before you hurt yourself or, more importantly, someone else.
-
- |[much deleted]
- |I think Mike really pushed Randy's hot button.
-
- Not really. Sometimes when someone starts swearing at me when they clearly
- don't have a brain cell firing and THINK that they are Gods gift to the
- intelligentsia, then, yeah, I'll sometimes react, but I don't lose any sleep
- over it.
-
- Randy Davis Email: randy@megatek.com
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