Wtf. You should not be driving. Stop driving.
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GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 months agoIt could be you next.
This is like parents leaving a child in the back seat of a car. Academically you know to never do it, but while it’s happening, you don’t detect it.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 6 months ago
GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It’s well documented human behavior, you’re no different.
Here’s an example:
Smoogs@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It was well documented that people owned people as slaves but you don’t see slave owners being given the award for common sense nor trusted with anything more than a diced apple.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Wait, are your actually suggesting you are different?
If you read the article, you’d see prove of all educations and backgrounds and origins are capable of forgetting a child in the back seat (routine) or driving into fog (highway hypnosis).
It’s not a populum fallacy, I’m literally sharing studied science on human behavior.
Would you say the doorway effect or frequency illusion or the dunning Kruger effect don’t happen to you either? That you are special? Oh wait I might be onto something with the last one, superdriver…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorway_effect#:~:text=Th…
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Sorry, but there’s nothing academic about realizing you’ve lost all visibility.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It’s related to highway hypnosis, and the moment you transition from “normal, safe road conditions” where you are following the person ahead to “can’t see shit fog” and everyone is panic breaking.
By the time you’ve “realiz(ed) you’ve lost all visibility” you’re fucked.
These situations happen most frequently with localized fog or very rapid weather shifts where drivers don’t expect change.
This is not a justification of unsafe driving, but an explanation of how average drivers around the world keep doing this.
Google highway hypnosis for more background.