I feel like driving a vehicle is fundamentally different from "natural" activities, because it involves a large difference in how you deal with things ahead ver

I feel like driving a vehicle is fundamentally different from "natural" activities, because it involves a large difference in how you deal with things ahead versus the sides. Things in front are highly compressed, while things to the sides are not, and your ability to move sideways is reduced by mass and speed. When I was a teenager, I went on a road trip where I drove like 12 or more hours in a day, which I could never do now. At the end, I got home and for a while I had a weird sort of tunnel vision that I don't know how to describe. It was almost like I was looking through a fish-eye lens or something; everything seemed distorted because of spending so much time concentrating on small lateral motions and things coming towards me at highway speeds. Sometimes I walk routes that I also frequently drive and it reminds me how motor vehicles compress time and space.