Stuart Hutton writes:
> 
> Hello again gang,
> the sound has gone away.  So I can't experiment to find conditions to make
> it come again ... but now here's a real stumper ...
> Although I'm not the kind who takes drugs I'd swear that when I drive my
> vanagon through snow (which is falling rapidly) that around 25-30 mph,
> the world takes on a different sence.  Instead of me driving on the road,
> the road is going under me while I am standing still.  This same 
> sensation hits my wife also ... and almost at the same speed.
> Has anyone else noticed this ?  It is not something I have ever noticed with
> another vehicle.  For those that have noticed this, what do you do to
> return your concentration to reality?
> Perhaps it is just that the vanagon runs so smoothly at 30 mph.  Perhaps
> it's too much propane.  Who knows?
> Stuart Hutton (hutton@poly.oscs.montana.edu) 1982 diesel vanagon camper
> 
I have noticed this especially when the snow is falling heavily and the
head lights are on and it is dark all around. I think its a combination of the
huge windscreen which gives a cineramic kind of view and the snow falling
towards the van which creates the perception of it moving towards you. You
get a similar sensation sitting in a train which is not moving but the one
beside it, is.....DC

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