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randomwalker on Aug 25, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve T...

Cynical much? How about it's because we have bounded cognitive abilities, limited perceptive accuracy and slow reaction times?

dkarl on Aug 25, 2009 | [–]

You're forgetting the natural caution and fearfulness that protect us from depending too much on our limited abilities when safety is at stake.

apotheon on Aug 25, 2009 | [–]

That too.

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