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Out of curiosity - what do you do when your car just drives for you but you can’t be doing other things — how do you not doze off?
by vladgur 2y ago
Out of curiosity - what do you do when your car just drives for you but you can’t be doing other things — how do you not doze off?
- rogerrogerr 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41678044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41678044 I look far ahead, look in the mirrors, look for anything that might trip it up. Basically all the things the state’s driver’s handbook says you’re supposed to be doing, but 80% of the time instead of 20% because the basic “follow lane lines, don’t hit the car ahead” task is delegated to the car. It feels much like cruise control on a freeway; the brain cycles you’d spend monitoring and controlling speed are allocated elsewhere. I’ve developed the same hook in my brain for “why am I lanekeeping manually” as I used to have for “why am I controlling speed manually”. It’s a useful task offload.