Wait, are your actually suggesting you are different?
If you read the article, you’d see examples of people of all educations and backgrounds and origins are capable of forgetting a child in the back seat (routine disruption) or driving into fog (highway hypnosis).
It’s not a populum fallacy, I’m literally sharing studied science on human behavior.
Would you say the doorway effect or frequency illusion or the dunning Kruger effect don’t happen to you either? That you are special? Oh wait I might be onto something with the last one, superdriver…
It’s related to highway hypnosis, and the moment you transition from “normal, safe road conditions” where you are following the person ahead to “can’t see shit fog” and everyone is panic breaking.
By the time you’ve “realiz(ed) you’ve lost all visibility” you’re fucked.
These situations happen most frequently with localized fog or very rapid weather shifts where drivers don’t expect change.
This is not a justification of unsafe driving, but an explanation of how average drivers around the world keep doing this.
With our puppies we say “OW” very dramatically, hold the limb that was nipped like it is wounded, and stop play for 5-10 minutes and return. Works like a charm