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A person more stressed has less mental capacity for everything else including pedestrians, why the heck do I have to explain this to adults? Stress leads to mis
by saiya-jin 3y ago
A person more stressed has less mental capacity for everything else including pedestrians, why the heck do I have to explain this to adults? Stress leads to mistakes, every single time, in any activity. Whole sports and strategies are based solely on making competitor more stressed to induce mistakes and lose.
- HPsquared 3y agoThere's a sweet spot. "Eustress" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustress
- mcv 3y agoAnd yet they're safer. All data so far seems to show that turbo roundabouts are very safe.
- CalRobert 3y agoYou might find https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html an interesting read. And there's ample research showing that drivers respond to low-stress designs by going faster and not paying as much attention to things on the periphery. https://grist.org/cities/heres-why-narrower-streets-are-safer/ https://grist.org/cities/heres-why-narrower-streets-are-safe... or the illustration at https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e2/e0/dd/e2e0dd89a67fe1df1e6d13943f0113f7.png https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e2/e0/dd/e2e0dd89a67fe1df1e6d... are useful. Would you be so kind as to explain to me your thinking to the contrary, ideally with sources?