02-28-2018, 10:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-28-2018, 10:25 AM by robdrimmie.)
Car sickness results from looking at a fixed point while a vehicle is in motion, no?
Not necessarily fixed points. Motion sickness is a result of conflicting input from our visual and vestibular systems. I don't get motion sick because of wraps, but I do if I try to read in a car or bus or whatever. There is something weird that happens on wrapped busses though, I'm definitely not processing visual information in a typical way.
It's also just irritating because watching the world outside the bus is one of my favourite experiences.
Given that there's relatively little money in bus advertising I'm genuinely curious what the difference in value of a full wrap versus just the standard large banners along the side is to GRT. If all advertising is bringing in 1 million, that difference from a half dozen or whatever busses can't account for too much of totals.
I'm going to start complaining (gently, of course) about every wrapped bus I'm on though. There's some good points in this thread that a lot of people wouldn't realize that it's a negative experience, and generally speaking any revenue dollar that doesn't come from tax or fare for public transit is likely viewed very positively. I came from the opposite (and at least as invalid) assumption, where everyone just hates them because they're dumb and ugly.
(edit: Sorry about the weird quoting style, I came from a different forum with different conventions and had posted this before realizing I'd done it all wrong)
Not necessarily fixed points. Motion sickness is a result of conflicting input from our visual and vestibular systems. I don't get motion sick because of wraps, but I do if I try to read in a car or bus or whatever. There is something weird that happens on wrapped busses though, I'm definitely not processing visual information in a typical way.
It's also just irritating because watching the world outside the bus is one of my favourite experiences.
Given that there's relatively little money in bus advertising I'm genuinely curious what the difference in value of a full wrap versus just the standard large banners along the side is to GRT. If all advertising is bringing in 1 million, that difference from a half dozen or whatever busses can't account for too much of totals.
I'm going to start complaining (gently, of course) about every wrapped bus I'm on though. There's some good points in this thread that a lot of people wouldn't realize that it's a negative experience, and generally speaking any revenue dollar that doesn't come from tax or fare for public transit is likely viewed very positively. I came from the opposite (and at least as invalid) assumption, where everyone just hates them because they're dumb and ugly.
(edit: Sorry about the weird quoting style, I came from a different forum with different conventions and had posted this before realizing I'd done it all wrong)