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I’ve been told it’s normal to just not be present for drives you have done a ton and are extremely familiar with. Still feels weird when I realise I’m basically at my destination and don’t remember anything about getting there.
I always found it weird that there was blood on my car that one time
I mean you don’t need to be a driver to experience this. It can happen to you as a pedestrian as well.
i don’t drive and have no plans on doing so, but i have never experienced this while biking or riding an e-scooter and i do not fathom how it would happen in a car
like, sure, i’m not always engaging 100% of my attention on everything around me, i might get distracted by a pretty blooming tree or something, but at no point is it even possible for me to zone out and forget where i’ve passed through…
honestly kinda terrifying to know that it’s how it works for people driving 3 ton vehicles at 30+km/h
The way it was explained to me is that because you do the same thing so often that your brain just removes it from your memory. It’s mostly seen with a daily commute or something.
maybe it’s really empty and straight? i’m pretty sure i’d end up running into someone if i zoned out, or i’d straight up ride into a wall or out onto the road
I don’t drive. I’m sure I could even if I’m afraid to do it, but I don’t like cars and society forcing us to drive partly for this reason. People drive lethal metal boxes everywhere without really thinking about it.
Cars are one of the most deadly things in a lot of countries and yet, they are totally normalised.
In Canada alone, in one year, nearly 2000 people died from car collisions. And distracted driving accounts for about 20% of those.
It’s why I prefer to cycle, and on segregated paths if possible. Because when I cycle on the road, I always have this kind of thoughts in the back of my mind. What if the person driving a multi ton projectile coming behind me at speed, is day dreaming and “didn’t see me”, even if I’m dressed in bright orange?
Sorry to be so serious about a meme but, yeaaah.
UK figures from 2022: Deaths: 1,695 Serious injury: 28,101
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reported_Road_Casualties_Great_Britain
But it’s so normalised. Rarely newsworthy, it’s so acceptable. I’m seeing more and more SUVs (Chelsea tractors) in London, the most ridiculously huge emotional support vehicles. Standing at the bus stop watching the cars go by, nearly all of them have just a driver, no passengers. We have good public transport in London, and I get there will always be some people for whom buses or bikes aren’t an option, but I wish there was more of a move away from cars.
As a cyclist, some drivers (a minority, but even one is too much) will happily leave barely a few centimetres clearance when passing. Or get unnecessarily aggressive because there isn’t room to overtake, even though there’s a red light anyway, so why the rush? I swear, you stick someone in a car and suddenly other people’s lives are expendable if it means shaving 3 seconds off their journey.
(Morons on modded ebikes - effectively unlicenced motorbikes really - are another gripe for another day. Red lights apply to you too, you muppets. And get off the frickin pavement.)
Me when i cycle back from the coffeeshop
That was also the way I used to play driving games. It was in that state that I used to set fast laps, and then mess it up trying to repeat it consciously.
