Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Qxir" channel.

Yes, quick thinking and that he was probably wearing flame retardant clothing. It really does cast that scene from Taladega Nights in a completely different light with him running around like a maniac with the imaginary fire while everybody is like WTF.
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@IronHorse1854 Yes, at bare minimum if you're on the ground, that's one portion of the body that's not being directly exposed to the necessary oxygen to keep the fire going .If you can smother wider patches, then all the better. But, it does definitely decrease the amount of oxygen over all versus running and I wouldn't doubt that it makes it easier for people with fire extinguishers or even fire resistant clothes to smother the flames.
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@repletereplete8002 Yes, things like this happen and it's important to keep things in context. If my dad had been wearing a seat belt when he had his rollover crash in the '70s, I probably wouldn't be alive because he woke up with a boulder where the driver's seat was. Obviously, being ejected is far more likely to result in a fatality than a boulder crushing the driver's seat. He didn't start wearing a seat belt until sometime in the early '80s when state law was changed to require it in any vehicle that had one factory installed.
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@johnladuke6475 Around here they're often times not recessed unless on arterials. Because one, side streets don't get plowed and B the side streets are concrete with no blacktop, so recessing them is a right pain to get right. They can't simply just roll over the location with an appropriate roller to get the groove right, they'd have to do it in the wet cement. That being said, I do believe that in more rural areas around here, they will be on sticks at the side of the road, but I think that's usually more to do with weeds and not wanting to mess around in the middle of a country road.
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@AhhPeepzilla That works out fine as long as you don't need to do too much plowing. There are areas along there that get enough snow in one location to completely cover that up, and that's without having to repeatedly plow the road.
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It happens, Benny Hill spent basically none of the money that he made during his career and probably could have lived a similar lifestyle on the salary of pretty much any job.
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Yes, barring a new version needing to accomodate lidar and AI cars, I can't see much about these that can be improved. It definitely does follow the guidance that perfection is achieved when nothing else can be removed, rather than added.
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It's unlikely that there will ever be much of an improvement over these, with the possible exception of something that is tuned to work better with the lidar that's likely to be coming with newer cars. Or, possibly, an equivalent beacon that is just usable by cars and doesn't need to be exposed.
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This is also how the busts in the DIsney Haunted Mansions work. Rather than it being a positive bust, it's actually a cut out in the shape of a bust, so as you go by, it appears to be watching you. It's pretty cool what the imagineers were able to do so many decades ago with such little technology compared with today.
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About a decade ago when I was attending college, I would often have to drive home in the rain. Because the geniuses designing the roads had changed most of the centerlines and hadn't bothered to install any of these on the new location, it was nearly impossible to figure out which of the two apparent centerlines was the actual centerline and which was the former centerline. You kind of had to keep as far to the right as practical without slamming into parked cars or run the risk of having to swerve to miss oncoming traffic.
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Around here, we just use curve warning signs for that. They are themselves retroreflective and evenly spaced. The further apart they appear, the sharper the turn. It's actually pretty impressive and probably not at all unique to America. I'm just not as familiar with the other st of traffic control devices that are used in most of the rest of the world.
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Around here we use those for the actual centerlines, lane markers and foglines. We use these cats eyes on the centerline and at the edge of the road. We also use retroreflective films on most road signs as well as our license plates. It is amazing how much of a difference that makes in terms of seeing the road when there aren't any lights. It is rather unfortunate, because it doesn't do anything to help you spot hazards in the roadway, just to keep you on the road.
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They are more complicated up front, but there are no moving parts and very few parts over all to break.
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@Martin42944 In Western Washington, they're used for both the center and the foglines of the road. We also use retroreflective signage whenever the road bends enough to justify specific signage.
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In this part of the US, we usually have both. I'd wager the reason why Russia doesn't have both as well has a lot to do with snow plows and the difficulties in installing them properly if you're going to plow over the top of them.
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That's not surprising. I haven't seen one, but now that these reflectors can be made so small, placing a light behind it isn't that hard.
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The plastic reflectors are probably not so cheap. They are plstic, but they're designed to not do much damage if they come up, and they're small enough that they probably can handle even a large truck without much trouble. The dots are more about giving you an auditory and tactile warning that you're starting to drift into the next lane, the same way that those grooves on the shoulder are meant to make it clear that ou're leaving the roadway entirely.
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@rarrawer Before these things were invented, we had a few actual light up equivalents on streets where there was a median popping up where one lane would turn and the other would go straight. It seemed to work fine, but one of these would probably have been a better solution to the problem as it could be properly protected, and easily replaceable if it somehow got broken. They are still there, but I do expect that they'll be replaced with one of these at some point in the future.
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They probably are. I'm less clear on the regulations for cars, but motorcycles are legally required to have them on the rear. Manufacturers will also typically put some in other places as well.
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In a place like that you've probably got something similar built into road signs instead of the road itself for places like where there's a sharper than normal bend in the road. We've got these both in the centers of our roads as well as most signs and pretty much all license plates.
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They're only a recent thing in this part of the US. I'm not sure when they were added, but for the most part we've been using the type of reflectors that are commonly placed on bikes and aren't as specific. I think that was also about the time that we switched from using led nitrate for the centerline to a retroreflective yellow plastic bit that gets torched to the road. That stuff is the real hero here, it's even more low key than these cat's eye things. Also, I’m not sure when we started to do it, but we've got the left fog line of our highways out of yellow when the road is divided and the right is white, so we know that we're on the correct side of the road when it's too foggy to see. I'd assume that this isn't just something in the US and that the other technical specs for road markings also does something similar.
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We've started using that here. We also started painting the left fogline yellow and the right fogline white, so that you know just from that whether or not you're on the right side of a divided highway, even when visibilty is poor. I'm not sure when they started doing that, but it was about the same time that they stopped painting the centerline with led nitrate.
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In cases like that, you're probably better off putting them near the side of the road instead. But, if you've got enough snow to cover them, which is definitely parts of Canada, even that is probably not enough. At some point, it's just not going to work.
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Those bounce back in almost exactly the same direction as it comes from because the angle it comes in is the same as the angle it goes out, and if you've got 2 of them at 90 degree you'll get the original direction back. If you par a 3rd lens, then you get the light coming back at the same angle precisely. And if the retroreflector is small enough, it goes back to almost exactly the same location that it came from.
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