Recommended Reading: How to drive.

 

The Washington Post has a story about how much some of us have forgotten about driving in this year of COVID:

 

"While the basic skills involved with driving are likely still intact, tasks that require more attention (like driving at night), more precision (parking) or memories that aren’t so easily accessible (where an old haunt is located) may have eroded. That’s true “even after a short, strange, time away,” said Robert Kraft, a professor of cognitive psychology at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio.

He considers driving “an unnatural act.” “We haven’t evolved to go 70 miles an hour or to park a vehicle,” he said. “I think we become different selves in a car, and we’ve forgotten that self.”

 

     Twice in recent weeks I left to drive to a familiar location here in Montgomery, but had to concentrate before leaving: How do I get there? I'm going to accept the Post's analysis.

FULL POST STORY is HERE.