
Driving Went Down. Fatalities Went Up. Here’s Why.
The Strong Towns Podcast
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Driving Is a System One Activity
Drivers who can do driving as a system to activity, they're called jet fighter pilots and race car drivers. For that entire time they are feet away from someone else's bumper. They are highly tive th everything out is crowded out of their brain,. There's a physical exhaustion that comes from being in that space. That's not how the rest of us drive. We all drive in system one. Drivers take cues subtly, subconsciously, from the design around them. If you give them wide lanes, if you give them clear areas, ifyou give them recovery areas, they will use that margin of safety subconsciously to drive fast. And so that is, in a sense,
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