all things considered i think driving is much safer than it ought to be, it is astonishing there are not way more car crashes, and i think it's because humans are slightly magic and we can just tell what the right thing to do is in traffic most of the time
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i drove 400 miles this weekend for the first time ever and there were a few times on the highway where i knew that a car was or was not in my blind spot and i don't know how i knew it, i just did the right thing and did not crash. mystifying
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i had a conversation with a group of rationalists once where someone used driving as an example of something you can do on autopilot and one person said "actually i can't drive or do anything else on autopilot, i have to think about everything i'm doing the whole time"
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it's not a crazy idea. for driving or other activities where you plausibly have hundreds or thousands of training hours already in place, you start to develop sophisticated heuristics & short cuts
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That's the difference between being aware of your surroundings and being conscious of your surroundings.