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naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I’d be really interested to see the results of response time testing on drives that long. You might be highly anomalous but most people begin to suffer significant attention and reaction penalties after around an hour that get steadily worse.

I know that when I try do multitask testing (a significant part of driving) after 2 hours of continuous driving my results are like 50% of freshly rested. I’d be surprised if you were anywhere capable of navigating an emergency reliably after 4 hours.

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mean_bean279@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
🤔 most of us in my family LOVE driving. Usually when we even needed to think/decompress or just have fun we would hop in a car and just drive. So I’m definitely more in a minority on that front. I suspect we’re just “drivers” compared to others. I just think more people can go more than 250 miles without stopping. It probably also helps that 3 of 4 of us have some level of adhd (medical diag). I think for us driving gives our monkey brain something to do. Like meditation, but worse for the environment. 😅

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- naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You really should try testing yourself though. You might be endangering your own and other people’s lives.
  
  Try some stuff like memory, attention, and dual n back before and after (make sure to train for a bit and discard those results to avoid training effects)
  
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  - mean_bean279@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I can assure you whatever test you want I could pass with flying colors and beyond, and so could most most drivers. That said, my car also drives itself on the highway for the most part and gives me a massage while I’m driving. So I sort of have an additional cheat code for driving. Even still my previous car for daily use was a manual Evo X and I took that all over the PNW and drove it fine for hours on end. Driving is taxing, but most people can usually go about 4-6 hours of constant driving, especially if you have someone in the car to talk with.
    
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    naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    talking while driving is actually quite bad:
    
    journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/…/0018720817748145
    
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- Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s not really about how much you like driving
  
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