Height and sight

What drunk person put up those lights? I always thought it was a law that they had to be vertical

 

i believe horizontal lights all have to have the signals at the same position (there's probably an ISO standard for that). green on the right, yellow in the middle and red on the left. the green arrow should be just left of the green light (at right). its been a while since ive drive but im pretty sure this is how it is, some signals reuse the same light for the turn signal so they only need 3 lights but the arrow is obvious b/c color blind people have no trouble differentiating different shapes.

obviously if you were color blind you are going to pay more attention to the positions of the signals, since color is out! thats all u can do .. its not a red light, its actually a stop light it just happens to be red. Otherwise they could make the lights different colors if it was that big a deal, since color bind people can still see color just have trouble telling the difference between "certain" colors ie, the most common type of color blindness causes red and green hues to appear the same, blue/yellow color blindnes is much rarer.

i guess its either not that big a deal, or they didn't think about people being color blind when they designed the standard for traffic lights.

 

There are two types of Red-Green color blindness apparently after some research, the more common kind doesn't seem as bad for driving, this isn't based on traffic lights but this other type seems like an example of driving not designed with the color blind in mind.

 

My buddys always giving me shit about needing glasses and i almost believed him til he found out his vision was like 20 / 15. I think mine is 20 / 20

Basically what a normal 20 20 person can see at fifteen feet my bud can see at twenty. Theres some chick with like 20 / 3 vision. Holy poo!

 

well, she can see all the ugliness of the world very clearly then w/ 20 3 vision

my distance vision might be as bad as 20/40 but im not sure cuz its been a while since ive taken a vision test. if its about 6" from my face i can see it just fine tho ....

but seriously i can't see signs until im right up at them sometimes especially if the rest of the lighting isnt very good or its dark or something

 

pigeons are apparently the best animal at seeing different hues of color

http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2009/01/14/animal-vision-color-detection-and-color-blindness/

 

Im red/green color deficient. (Colorblind)

 

dang! and I am 20/700 plus both partially red/green and blue/green color blind (I don't actually see only in shades of grey but colors blend and are muted)

 

So by that reasoning the Bar-headed Goose, which is said to be the world's highest flying bird, should have the most acute vision.

 

I saw a documentary about them flying over the Himalayas. Interesting. Their lungs work at the limit of what is biologically possible. I thought they were amazing creatures. I'm not surprised to learn that Tibetan and Indian cultures had a spiritual view of them.

'The wild goose draws near the cloud heights.
Its feathers can be used for the sacred dance.
Good fortune'.... I Ching.

 

I am relieved to know that I am not defective. The reason now for needing bifocal contacts and being 5'2" has now been explained.

 

20/55 in one eye 20/200 in the other. yes i need my specs to read street signs.