I took an interest in some of the TV news stories coming into work this morning, not for the content, but for the fact that my taxi driver had his eyes pinned to the small screen in front of him whilst driving along. This made for a few brown trouser moments avoiding near-misses and bouncing into obviously unseen pot holes in the road. This is very common practice, and there are no laws regarding what you can and cannot do inside the privacy of your own vehicle (one exception – drink driving, not the actual practice of drinking in the vehicle, or having open canisters, but being under the influence and over the limit. They take a dim view of this). The screen they watch is actually a 9” LCD which doubles up as a Sat-Nav system, radio and a TV. I have even seen one doing a light and sound show to the beat of music. The trouble is they prefer to have it do anything other than show the way to the destination.
One thing Korean driver’s love, is blue LED lighting – it’s everywhere! It’s in the cab, on the dash, behind the door handles, and backlighting all the gauges and dials on the dashboard. They even have them mounted into the car maker emblems on the body work. We’re not talking your average boy-racer here, this is the average Joe in his regular day ride. I got into a taxi the other day, and this thing had been pimped to the max! It had leather upholstered roof lining and door pockets, that resembled a Chesterfield couch. It had the obligatory blue LED lighting, and had a sound system complete with dancing plasma display hooked up to an MP3 player. I half expected to pay extra for the ride, just for the entertainment value!
Show me blue LED’s and my eyes don’t work, especially at night – I tend to see ultraviolet ghost images for ages afterwards, and it screws up my focus for a while. I’m sure there is a name for my condition, if not, I’ll call it LEDopia
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