With respect, while I broadly agree that a good driver could significantly mitigate the impact, I think you're looking at this with too much hindsight. 1. Even

With respect, while I broadly agree that a good driver could significantly mitigate the impact, I think you're looking at this with too much hindsight. 1. Even a sober, awake driver glances down to confirm their speedometer and scan their fuel gauge, check engine light, tire pressure, etc. 2. A sober, awake driver should be scanning the road along and beside the projected vehicle path. But they doesn't necessarily mean the would be looking in the direction of the occluded headlights at the very first instant they tell of a crashed car. 3. A sober, awake driver has to process what they see. 4. A sober, awake driver still has a good 0.2 to 0.25 second reaction time. 5. I actually do look for occluded lights when driving at night, but my experience talking about this with others in person is that this is a totally foreign concept. In other words, you know where and how and when to look for the obstruction because you've watched the video a few times. This is sort of like the Air France 447 flight or the Boeing 737 Max trim problem. If someone tells you exactly what kind of scenario you're going to face, how to handle it and approximately when you'll face it: you can win every time. 100% of pilots who were briefed on the specifics of AF447 avoided crashing the sim. Same for the 737 Max. Yet, hundreds of people are dead because pilots in actual cockpits, who were not given prior notification failed to act correctly.