How is the global state of instability influencing product and interior design?
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- vaxorcist0
OK.. seriously...
Look at the window height of cars designed before and after Sept 11, 2001 that are for sale in US....
I've seen focus group studies that said that people felt safer if they didn't think people could see into their cars very well, they felt vurnable if anything below their shoulders or upper torso was visible outside the car...
This of course was contradictory to reality, the more you can see out the fewer cars, bikes, kids and curbs you are likely to crash into, but psychology beats logic often....
so... compare an 1990's car's wide open view, lots of deep windows, seating position where you can see a TON out the windows, and yes, people can see you... compare this to the short windows of most currently available cars, where the height of the windows has been made much shorter, where the vehicle itself sits up higher, where you can barely see outwards if you don't adjust the seat in a certain position.
Just park a 90's car next to say a 2007 car in a parking lot and check out the window area... it's astonishing... how.. far.. backwards.. the paranoia can make us go sometiimes... so much for "design progress"
- Please. There is a world outside the USA and 9/11. Get over it.qTime