<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by davdah:
Essentially, the faster you go the narrower your visual range. And, the further out your point of focus or direction becomes. This can be demonstrated while driving. Find a narrow road with trees on either side. Drive down the road at increasingly faster rates and the perceived field of view becomes narrower and so does the road. That's due visual limitations. Which also explains why a lot of high speed accidents end up head on collisions on narrow roads. From the drivers perspective, the road becomes narrow and they have a tendency to drive towards the middle to avoid what seems to be a more near road side on the right.
It comes down to skill and ability to maintain a straight line. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
If I had Bugatti Veyron I could have an option to see how objects actually appear to pilot at close to jet speed velocity on a narrow road.
Since i don't i have to rely on my imagination and what i understand about speed and perception.
You don't get that "jet speed" effect in a regular car with capped at 120 mph limit. Road accidents are due to bad road conditions or sudden appearance of objects that cause most drivers to veer off by reflex.
At high speeds that many jets fly on full altitude ( ~700-900 km/h ~10.000 meters above sea level ) , not mentioning supersonic jets, there is a great distortion of perception due to brain not receiving the impulse until after it moves hundred or more meters closer to an object from which it originated, with another hundred covered by the time the decision is made and command from brain reaches the instruments controlling the aircraft. That is what i assume would make it too difficult if not impossible for a human to control the jet at high speeds.
Essentially, the faster you go the narrower your visual range. And, the further out your point of focus or direction becomes. This can be demonstrated while driving. Find a narrow road with trees on either side. Drive down the road at increasingly faster rates and the perceived field of view becomes narrower and so does the road. That's due visual limitations. Which also explains why a lot of high speed accidents end up head on collisions on narrow roads. From the drivers perspective, the road becomes narrow and they have a tendency to drive towards the middle to avoid what seems to be a more near road side on the right.
It comes down to skill and ability to maintain a straight line. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
If I had Bugatti Veyron I could have an option to see how objects actually appear to pilot at close to jet speed velocity on a narrow road.
Since i don't i have to rely on my imagination and what i understand about speed and perception.
You don't get that "jet speed" effect in a regular car with capped at 120 mph limit. Road accidents are due to bad road conditions or sudden appearance of objects that cause most drivers to veer off by reflex.
At high speeds that many jets fly on full altitude ( ~700-900 km/h ~10.000 meters above sea level ) , not mentioning supersonic jets, there is a great distortion of perception due to brain not receiving the impulse until after it moves hundred or more meters closer to an object from which it originated, with another hundred covered by the time the decision is made and command from brain reaches the instruments controlling the aircraft. That is what i assume would make it too difficult if not impossible for a human to control the jet at high speeds.
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