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ChristianKl comments on Humans can drive cars - Less Wrong Discussion

33 Post author: Apprentice 30 January 2014 11:55AM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 04 February 2014 03:03:24PM 1 point [-]

I find something like the change in time perception that we go through when driving on a highway pretty remarkable. When going from highway driving to normal road driving things seem very slow.

Given that there are no cases in prehistory where a human traveled 100 km/h it's pretty interesting that we have useful adaptive behavior that triggers in those situations.

Comment author: drethelin 05 February 2014 06:18:38PM 0 points [-]

Occasionally I'll take a video of myself driving on my phone or google glass and whenever I look at it I feel like "holy shit that's fast" even though it's usually city driving at 25-30 miles an hour.