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  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    7 months ago

    It’s about cognitive load. When you’re driving you want reduced cognitive load so you want things to be as unambiguous as possible.

    It’s a difference between reading a shop sign as you drive past as a passenger and reading a shop sign as you drive past as a driver. You’re focusing mostly on the driving so you don’t have extra brain capacity to read the sign.

    Same thing here, you are focusing on driving so you don’t have extra brain capacity to work out what the person in front of you is doing. If you’re used to it it’s fine, but if you’re not used to it it’s dangerous.

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      focusing on driving so you don’t have extra brain capacity to work out what the person in front of you is doing

      That’s a huge part of driving, people not paying attention to the cars in front of them has gotten a car totaled while I’m waiting at a red light, and a bumper bent while I was waiting at a turn without a light. In both cases I was stopped where I was supposed to be, the people behind me were not paying attention to the cars in front of them, and so they hit me.