Well, it's not like this is the first indication, but there are stupid people everywhere.
About a week ago I was doing some testing. This particular test required that I drive an instrumented bike along city streets to validate the test procedure. Just to set the stage, let me expand on "instrumented".
The first component is a box about 8"x4"x2" duct taped to the top of the gas tank right in front of the rider. Now this little box costs about $14,000 so there's about a half a roll of duct tape all over the tank in order to keep the thing on. Attached to this box are about 15 blue wires going to 15 sensors superglued in plain sight all over the bike. The last little bit of imagery is that the 16th wire leaving the box goes along the tank, under the seat, and up my back where there is a microphone with a 4" windscreen duct taped to the back of my helmet.
Now that you have a picture in your head, imagine that I'm sitting like this at a gas station. As I'm sitting there, a lady pulls up beside me and rolls down her window. I looked over and noticed that she's saying something to me. I've got a full faced helmet on with the shield down so I can't hear a word she's saying. I reached up to lift my face shield and she began to repeat herself. Now that I could understand her I heard her say, "Is that an MP3 player or something?"
I looked down at the bike, thought about what she was asking, and just as I was about to explain the whole data recorder and accelerometer setup, I thought...it's not worth it.
"Yes, it sure is."...And I drove off.
Wow people are stupid.