I'm skeptical of that possibility, because if that were true, you would see the driver gasp in surprise while looking down (and a lot sooner BTW, given that it'

I'm skeptical of that possibility, because if that were true, you would see the driver gasp in surprise while looking down (and a lot sooner BTW, given that it's supposedly night vision), instead of roughly one human-reaction-time after looking up at the road.