{"id":11845,"date":"2012-06-08T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11845"},"modified":"2012-06-08T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T08:00:19","slug":"from-the-far-side-to-jurassic-park-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11845","title":{"rendered":"From The Far Side to Jurassic Park to Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drexel.edu\/now\/news-media\/releases\/archive\/2012\/June\/Drivers-Side-Mirror-With-No-Blind-Spot-Receives-US-Patent\/\">Driving without a Blind Spot May Be Closer Than It Appears<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s not hard to make a curved mirror that gives a wider field of view \u2013 no blind spot \u2013 but at the cost of visual distortion and making objects appear smaller and farther away.<\/p>\n<p>Hicks\u2019s driver\u2019s side mirror has a field of view of about 45 degrees, compared to 15 to 17 degrees of view in a flat driver\u2019s side mirror. Unlike in simple curved mirrors that can squash the perceived shape of objects and make straight lines appear curved, in Hicks\u2019s mirror the visual distortions of shapes and straight lines are barely detectable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Yeah, I know that the &#8220;objects are closer than they appear&#8221; gags were on the passenger side, which does have a curved mirror)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving without a Blind Spot May Be Closer Than It Appears It&#8217;s not hard to make a curved mirror that gives a wider field of view \u2013 no blind spot \u2013 but at the cost of visual distortion and making &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11845\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}