by "AdverseMartyr" (ewilliamson)
Published 03/06/2017 at 01:45
by "AdverseMartyr" (ewilliamson)
Published 03/06/2017 at 01:45
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Ok, if people who are good at face recognition are still only average at recognizing random objects out of context... what does it say about Oppos/Jalopnik posters that they can identify the year, make and model of a car from a fraction of a taillight/headlight/bumper/etc...
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
03/06/2017 at 01:49, STARS: 5
we all need some serious psychiatric help
;)
"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
03/06/2017 at 01:57, STARS: 4
Considering all it takes is a string of letters and numbers (W208, E30, etc) for us to see whole cars, idk, you be the judge...
"Birddog" (maintmgt)
03/06/2017 at 01:57, STARS: 4
What are you looking for?
The answer can always be manipulated to fit.
"Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch" (bman76)
03/06/2017 at 02:00, STARS: 11
It’s a hive mind thing, individually we have specialized knowledge, together we know all.
"AdverseMartyr" (ewilliamson)
03/06/2017 at 02:03, STARS: 1
Oh, mmm...I don’t know that I really wanted an answer. I just thought it was funny to read about how even people who are good with faces struggle to recognize other objects when there is only a portion of it, and connected it with the people on here who can recognize the model of a truck from a bent rim, etc...
"AdverseMartyr" (ewilliamson)
03/06/2017 at 02:05, STARS: 1
So we’ll be the first line of defense for the earth if space cockroaches ever attack. I suppose we should all keep some Bushmills on hand to make Irish coffees with then. Is anyone on here named Callahan?
"Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch" (bman76)
03/06/2017 at 02:09, STARS: 3
Error 404, reference not found.
"Birddog" (maintmgt)
03/06/2017 at 02:13, STARS: 0
I’d call it “Spatial Awareness” if I had a Dr before my name.
"AdverseMartyr" (ewilliamson)
03/06/2017 at 02:19, STARS: 1
SciFi comedy series by Spider Robinson, and I may have given away a major plot point. Dammit.
"Tazio, Count Fouroff" (tazio0625)
03/06/2017 at 02:30, STARS: 0
idk what’s wrong with us — if in fact something is wrong (!) — but as far as ID of random components goes, no matter what else they might be doing at a given moment, car guys (people) never stop also being car guys, ever; so there’s that... It insures we get lots of practice at that kind of thing haha
"gergey - Wishes vette was Datsun" (gbergey)
03/06/2017 at 02:46, STARS: 4
I’m awful with faces, and generally clueless when it comes to the “guess the make and model from a little bit of brake light housing” however that’s just because I have no personal experience with whatever car is being posted.
If someone asked me to differentiate a ‘90 Celica from a ‘92 Celica, or a GT from a GTS or GT-FOUR, I could totally do that, just like other people here could tell the difference between a 2008 Malibu LS or a 2009 Malibu LT, based on the presence of body colour mirrors or some such...
TLDR I’m drunk and rambling, and what I’m getting at is we might all be horrible with faces and recognizing specific vehicles in general but there’s so many people here that even if we only knew one model each someone would always know the right answer!
"jariten1781" (jariten1781)
03/06/2017 at 07:46, STARS: 4
It’s been studied. Locked behind a pay-wall, but basically ‘identification experts’ actually utilize the portion of the brain for identifying their specialty that normal folks and face recognition experts use in identifying human faces. MRIs actually light up a totally different portion of the brain when car folks and birders look at cars/birds than when normal people look at cars/birds and it’s the same portion that regular people and face recognition experts light up when looking at human faces. Theory is that normal people kludge together their image recognition of random objects by parsing them in segments whereas experts have the ‘whole’ stored in a special segment of the brain and can nearly instantly connect it.
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v3/n2/full/nn0200_191.html
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
03/06/2017 at 09:05, STARS: 0
I’m not too bad with faces, but I’m horrible with names of people. The reason is that my auditory memory processing takes so much of a back seat to visual/text memory. If I see someone’s face with their name in print, I’m golden.
Since I see vast amounts of cars only that way, I can remember them. *shrug*
"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction)
03/06/2017 at 09:17, STARS: 0
http://exploration.vanderbilt.edu/news/news_car_face_interference.htm
"AdverseMartyr" (ewilliamson)
03/06/2017 at 10:02, STARS: 0
As I said previously, I really wasn’t looking for an answer... but I’m actually not at all surprised that someone on here knows the answer. :)
"Dave the car guy , still here" (a3dave)
03/06/2017 at 16:40, STARS: 0
When Amazon broke the internet and we were still here it made me realize we, as strange as this conglomeration of people can be, are truly part of the master plan. We the cockroaches of the internet are a superior mutation of human.
I’m not surprised someone knew the answer either.