Can visual(like illusions) misconceptions cause road accidents?
Indeed visual illusions and false visual queues can directly contribute to accidents. I can think of three specific examples. In Manchester, there is a road which suddenly narrows to two lanes after driving away from a three-lane crossroads. Because the road-narrows are situated underneath dense trees, and because the road-edging is usually filthy, at night, you simply DO NOT SEE the wall and pavement which stick out from the nearside, because the wall is black and unlit due to the trees. How there has never been a fatal accident there, I will never know, considering how much new cement holds the wall together. It’s a classic example of how road-planner and safety-officers fail miserably in their jobs, but then install speed cameras when enough people get killed. I don’t know whether it still exists, but in Nottingham there was a railway bridge, and the road approaching it had few markings. Consequently, you drove down what appeared to be a perfeclty good, wide road, only to discover t
