[anotheryou]

the jogger is a problem because the legs are so flimsy :)

If you don't see the legs and don't have very accurate 3d vision, the object might just as well stand further away in the middle of the road: http://malea.lacerta.uberspace.de/up/e92e6492-ce56-468b-8e09...

I think the hydrant is the same problem: head on you don't have any parallax effect to do know the distance, so if you don't detect where the thing is rooted to the ground you might guess it's in the way.

and it completely fails do detect the right end of the lane (the moments before I was amazed how it still drove so fluid)

I think 0.25x is the right speed if you want to watch it in realtime