You’re being lied to. I know, that sentence sounds like conspiracy theory clickbait. But the lie I’m talking about isn’t coming from the government, Hollywood, NASA, the educational system, or a cabal of doctors. It’s from your own brain. Next time you drive at night, your brain is going to tell you that you can see better than you actually can.
Vision has two jobs when you drive; your ambient vision takes care of lane-keeping (helping you know where you are), and your focal vision identifies objects and obstacles up ahead. The problem is that we don’t need a lot of light for lane-keeping; our headlights are more than adequate. But they fall short for obstacle recognition, and sometimes by a lot. Your ability to safely travel in your lane leads you to believe that you can adequately see and respond to any obstacle up ahead in the road. That’s the lie.
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