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Look behind you! If you just did, how did you do it? By turning your head? It’s hard to see directly behind you like that – maybe you can catch a glimpse in your peripheral…

When you're learning to drive, it seems like you're being given all sorts of contradictory advice. "Concentrate on your driving!" "Make sure that you're open to new stimuli!" "Keep looking at the road!" "Keep monitoring…

Parallel parking is a difficult skill to master. I know several people who are on their Ps, but will still avoid parallel parking wherever possible, because they still find it stressful and tricky. Even for…

“Hindsight is twenty-twenty”, or so says the old cliché. But this expression is just talking about metaphorical hindsight – looking back on this past. Literal hindsight – seeing what’s behind you isn’t clear at all.…

When driving a larger vehicle like a truck or RV, or towing a caravan, adequate rear vision is absolutely crucial. This is a double threat – firstly, you take up more space on the road…

Mirrors do not provide an accurately scaled image. Depending on your distance from the mirror (which will be different depending on the driver and exact setup), the scale of the objects depicted in the mirror…

It is a simple matter of physics that the bigger the vehicle you are driving, the larger your blind spots will be. This makes driving a much more dangerous experience – another vehicle can literally…

Reverse parking is one of the hardest elements of driving. It requires fine motor skills, keen spatial awareness, and expert judgment of distances. Learning it is a difficult process for beginner drivers, and doing it…

Humans are actually rare among animals in that we have both eyes on the front of our heads, facing the same direction. The only other animals that have that trait are carnivorous mammals, primates, and…

The most dangerous things in this world are almost always the ones that you don’t know about. The hazards that you don’t notice, the weaknesses that you’re not aware of, the risks that you haven’t…

One of the interesting things about classic works of literature is how they rely on certain technologies not existing – usually because they didn’t exist at the time the work was written. Romeo and Juliet…

This one’s a true story about something that happened to me recently. A few weeks ago, I accidentally backed into someone’s car as I was reversing out of my driveway. It was a bright day,…