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The team, in a feat of engineering that took more than a year and a half, fitted an fMRI with a virtual-reality driving simulator complete with a fully functional steering wheel, brake and accelerator pedals. The study was inspired by neurological patients - people who have suffered brain injury from strokes, brain tumours, trauma and other conditions that make them vulnerable to being declared "medically unfit" to drive.
"If you take their licence away, it's probably one of the most devastating things to happen to them, next to the medical condition itself, and, in some cases, even more so," said principal researcher Dr. Tom Schweizer, a neuroscientist and director of the neuroscience research program at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
"You see some of these tumour patients: Even before they ask if the tumour is going to come back after surgery, they ask, 'when can I get my driver's licence back?' "
Originally posted by SilentKoala
That has to be the stupidest thing I've heard today. Left turns require brain power? All you're doing is rotating a wheel. Who did they use for this study? A bunch of patients from the local retard center?
That has to be the stupidest thing I've heard today. Left turns require brain power? All you're doing is rotating a wheel. Who did they use for this study? A bunch of patients from the local retard center?
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Simple solution, Move to a country that drive on the right side (by that I mean the left side) of the road, problem solved
Originally posted by SilentKoala
That has to be the stupidest thing I've heard today. Left turns require brain power? All you're doing is rotating a wheel. Who did they use for this study? A bunch of patients from the local retard center?
Originally posted by yourmaker
Honestly I have so much more trouble turning right into a parking stall then turning left anywhere else.
Driving comes to me like second nature now a days. I can judge millimetre distances in a flash.
Just awkward turning right since the steering wheel is on the left.
Interesting how it requires more brain 'power' though?
I guess to be mindful of the cars that could come at any second combined with the actually physical movement itself requires more energy then usual, but huge? hmm
Originally posted by CrypticSouthpaw
thanks for contributing and commenting guys. Always appreciate it
The reason why it takes more brain power was stated in this article. People i guess are thinking when they think of brain power and driving. They imagine their ability to pull in and out of corners that are parked or how they can zoom around corners well still being between the lines. I guess people somehow attribute that to what they think is *brain power* .
What the article is actually pointing out, Is that it takes a lot of brain power to focus on all other other cars at intersections, pedestrians, the lights. And paying attention to where other people are headed. There's blind spots when you turn and you can get clipped by a car that isn't paying attention. There are usually lots of cars driving around on each corners of dense intersections. With it pedestrians and people who likely are not paying attention to their surroundings. Its referring to environment not peoples ability to drive with co-ordination. Awareness and co-ordination are 2 very distinct things. For those who notice everything more. Are usually the safer drivers rather than the ignorant who disregard everyone around them, those people put peoples lives at risk, Fools.
Honestly, I don't really understand how it requires more brain power. Isn't it the same thing as turning it to the right?