Comment on A robot just swapped my electric car's battery
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months agoYou 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 9 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 9 months ago
talking while driving is actually quite bad:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/…/0018720817748145
mean_bean279@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That would explain all the people I’ve definitely hit on the road.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Don’t be an arse that isn’t how risk works. You can claim you perform perfectly well driving for a long time with distractions but evidence suggests it has a significant cost.
you might be a freak, some people are there are people who can calculate primes in their head or recall with near perfect accuracy, but the odds are stacked against you.
Unless you’ve actually tested yourself you should probably proceed under the assumption that driving for more than a couple of hours without a break begins to get dangerously risky. Middle of a salt flat in woop woop? who cares. Elsewhere? Maybe pull over and spend 3 minutes doing jumping jacks or something.