Your eyeballs are amazing. But they are also lazy. They look for big, car-shaped blobs. A motorcycle? It’s the size of a refrigerator with a tiny headlight.
It fits perfectly into your blind spot. But not just the blind spot. It hides in all the spots. It’s the Houdini of the highway.
The “Holier Than Thou” Visibility Illusion
Riders wear bright yellow jackets. They put on reflective vests. They add strobe lights. You still pull out in front of them. Why? Because you are looking for a car.
Your brain is a pattern-matching machine. It sees a car shape and goes “Stop!” It sees a tiny speck and goes “Meh, irrelevant.” That speck is doing 100 km/h.
