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Zoot Katz
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Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:38:57 -0800, <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (Tom Keats) wrote:
>I think the answer to your question is: be psychic
>
>Seriously though, I think one does develop a sense of when
>drivers are going to make boneheaded moves before they
>make them. It's obviously not a reliable enough technique
>to entirely depend on. But when I get that funny feeling
>that things just aren't quite right (like when you just
>"know" that driver on the cross street up ahead is going
>to bolt across his stop line, right into your path), I find
>it doesn't hurt to [be prepared to] exercise a little extra
>caution. Actually, I'm impressed by the great number of times
>that 'funny feeling' turns out to be correct. Maybe it's not so
>much a psychic thing, as merely being attuned to car movements --
>maybe there are subtle, premonitory hints in the way a car moves,
>as to its driver's intentions.
It's a basic survival skill that's hardwired into our brains. I
compare it to the similar phenomenon of knowing when somebody is
staring at us.
I think it's natural that we should have this hightened awareness when
we're constantly exposed to potential threats.
--
zk
[email protected] (Tom Keats) wrote:
>I think the answer to your question is: be psychic
>
>Seriously though, I think one does develop a sense of when
>drivers are going to make boneheaded moves before they
>make them. It's obviously not a reliable enough technique
>to entirely depend on. But when I get that funny feeling
>that things just aren't quite right (like when you just
>"know" that driver on the cross street up ahead is going
>to bolt across his stop line, right into your path), I find
>it doesn't hurt to [be prepared to] exercise a little extra
>caution. Actually, I'm impressed by the great number of times
>that 'funny feeling' turns out to be correct. Maybe it's not so
>much a psychic thing, as merely being attuned to car movements --
>maybe there are subtle, premonitory hints in the way a car moves,
>as to its driver's intentions.
It's a basic survival skill that's hardwired into our brains. I
compare it to the similar phenomenon of knowing when somebody is
staring at us.
I think it's natural that we should have this hightened awareness when
we're constantly exposed to potential threats.
--
zk