It’s not really about how much you like driving
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mean_bean279@lemmy.world 6 months 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. 😅
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 months ago
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months 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)
mean_bean279@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
talking while driving is actually quite bad:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/…/0018720817748145
mean_bean279@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That would explain all the people I’ve definitely hit on the road.