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Article #21511Re: Speeding (was Re: The Truth about Radar/Laser
From: HARRY R. ERWIN
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 19:10
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 19:10
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The time required for the mind to become consciously aware of sensory data is approximately 500 msec. After that, it takes about 300 msec for an action to be initiated. Hence, you have to provide 800 msec of reaction time for an unexpected emergency, before the shoe hits the brake pedal. This is shortened under most circumstances by direct connections between early pattern-recognition processing and the motor areas, but when the emergency is totally unexpected, it takes close to a second to react. This also implies, by the way, that your conscious mind is running about 1/2 second behind real-time. If your brain is destroyed in less than that time, you never feel a thing. Does this give some insight into how speed limits should be set? -- Harry Erwin Internet: herwin@gmu.edu or erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com Working on Freeman nets....
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