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The moonwalking bear/gorilla comes to mind for this. Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events - https://www.youtube.com/watc

The moonwalking bear/gorilla comes to mind for this. Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo / https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10694957/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10694957/ But I'm not sure what that means, is it good or bad to see the bear. You are driving not looking at pretty things. You want to reduce dimensions. It's a 1 tonne vehicle, color shouldn't matter.

aeternum 6y ago
I thought of this experiment also. It may be that the drivers missed the bear because they were more focused on driving and collision avoidance.
- zimpenfish 6y ago
  > It may be that the drivers missed the bear because they were more focused on driving and collision avoidance. Which would be great if not for the fact that the bear is attached to an overtaking car - one of the things they're supposed to be noticing. (You could make the case that they were focused on the car itself and thus the bear was an easily forgotten distraction to counter this.)
- rolandog 6y ago
  Agreed; I don't like to jump in to be playing devil's advocate, but I usually don't pay much attention to things that don't pose much of a risk to me, while I'm driving. The only reason I would think about paying attention to the bear is because I sometimes am aware of the risks from other's carelessness: "what if one of the ropes holding it snaps, and it tumbles onto my lane?" But, in this case, if it's only people that are new to an autonomous system (like, new owners, or rental car users), then I can imagine that there may be some learning curve involved that distracts you from being really focused on the driving task, because you're learning to use your 'tool'.
- astura 6y ago
  I don't know any studies, but I always thought overall situational awareness was a bit part of defensive/safe driving. Always being aware of other vehicles around you and other potential hazards. Not getting tunnel vision. I know I intuitively feel it is anyways. We need much better driver training.
  - aeternum 6y ago
    Sure, but this study does not convince me that the drivers lacked situational awareness. They may have been paying attention to the pertinent details like whether the car was going to ingress their lane, overtake speed, etc. rather than the car's decorations. Drivers may have even seen the bear but simply not committed it to memory since they were focused on driving. In contrast, it was the drivers that were familiar with the car that most often remembered the bear, perhaps this was because they were paying less attention to defensive driving since they felt more comfortable and had attention to spare allowing them to remember passing car decor.

aeternum 6y ago

I thought of this experiment also. It may be that the drivers missed the bear because they were more focused on driving and collision avoidance.

zimpenfish 6y ago
> It may be that the drivers missed the bear because they were more focused on driving and collision avoidance. Which would be great if not for the fact that the bear is attached to an overtaking car - one of the things they're supposed to be noticing. (You could make the case that they were focused on the car itself and thus the bear was an easily forgotten distraction to counter this.)
rolandog 6y ago
Agreed; I don't like to jump in to be playing devil's advocate, but I usually don't pay much attention to things that don't pose much of a risk to me, while I'm driving. The only reason I would think about paying attention to the bear is because I sometimes am aware of the risks from other's carelessness: "what if one of the ropes holding it snaps, and it tumbles onto my lane?" But, in this case, if it's only people that are new to an autonomous system (like, new owners, or rental car users), then I can imagine that there may be some learning curve involved that distracts you from being really focused on the driving task, because you're learning to use your 'tool'.
astura 6y ago
I don't know any studies, but I always thought overall situational awareness was a bit part of defensive/safe driving. Always being aware of other vehicles around you and other potential hazards. Not getting tunnel vision. I know I intuitively feel it is anyways. We need much better driver training.
- aeternum 6y ago
  Sure, but this study does not convince me that the drivers lacked situational awareness. They may have been paying attention to the pertinent details like whether the car was going to ingress their lane, overtake speed, etc. rather than the car's decorations. Drivers may have even seen the bear but simply not committed it to memory since they were focused on driving. In contrast, it was the drivers that were familiar with the car that most often remembered the bear, perhaps this was because they were paying less attention to defensive driving since they felt more comfortable and had attention to spare allowing them to remember passing car decor.