Subconscious Driving Habits

[GTR-N1]

Do you ever notice that if you're driving > 30mins that you get into a subconscious mind-set that causes you to...

i) pass a fixed speed camera and later on think, what speed was I doing back there?

ii) go past > 2 suburbs without noticing?

iii) even go towards a usual destination instead of your intended one?

As I age, I'm thinking it happens to me more often!

[666DAN]

You should know this one Terry, it's drifitng into Alpha-like wave consciousness....I do it a lot, I call them mystery drives

[MANWHORE]

The speed camera one is freaky.

It happens to me all the time. Everytime, I get worried that I might have forgotten to check my speed before passing through.

[FATAZZ]

I do the third one time to time.

Routine, you know.

[lingeringsoul]

re 1) nope, I check my speed every 10 seconds so most of the time I know exactly how fast I'm going.

[Bullet32]

I go into auto-pilot all the time...

When I started my new job it was in a completely different area to my old one but because I left at 7:00am and wasnt completely awake I drove to my old place of work 2 times in a row before it sunk in... 30kms in the opposite direction to my new job.

[666DAN]

The thing is though you are very aware of speed/correct lane/not killing anyone, as it's so routine your brain doesn't place it into long term memory, the fact you can't recall it is just that your brain has decided there was nothing memorable/special to keep.

[HomeDawwg]

Hahaha yeh i do that all the time. You just get so used to the normal routine.

Il get home and be like...umm...i dont remember going through (suburb i always go home through).

And driving to work on a sunday, ive done that a few times

[DRD-00F]

Always check my speed too, probably as often as I check the road... so I'm safe there

but there have been several times where I headed to one place accidently... Just sort of zone out... I think it was always towards work too sadly

[zoomzoom]

some people switch right off....today for example, i was coming up to an intersection, light turned orange, i pulled up slowly. the person in the lane next to me, however, was totally oblivious and went straight through the red. not just clipped it after it turned orange, i mean straight through the lights which had already been red for 5 seconds.

the miracle was whatever traffic tripped the lights must have gone in another direction, as no traffic pulled out onto this section of the road. only chance stopped an accident

[Kujotk]

nope i can't switch off, cant afford to loose my license again on purpose (like before) and i'm not going to loose it by accident,,,, always check my speed, always know where i am at any time and always know where i'm going.... always stop a couple of meters back from traffic lights so my front window lines up with the car next to me's boot.... never enter an intersection without checking that its clear even if i have the green light, i never rely on a gps and i always figure out alternative routes incase something happens, when i slow down i look infront of me and behind me at the same time, when someone drives behind me for a long time or drives too close to me for a while i purposely go to a roundabout and make it so i am then following them,

one lapse in concentration can kill you, i'm not ready to become a statistic.

not my fault im paranoid, dad's an ex 'D' who's since turned to the dark side and i sorta picked up his tricks of the trade..... and it works, never even had an accident, not even one thats not my fault

laugh if you will, it works for me....

edit* forgot to mention i always park next to a wall or a pylon in shoping centres so i reduce the risk of someone accidentally hitting my car with their door, keys or car...

[Mayuri Krab]

Do #1 all the time when I pass a speed cam, or if I did check my speed after passing the speed cam, I wonder wether my speedo is correct or not...

[AndrewJZX100]

I've got a stupid one that I picked up from driving the 32, because the clutch sticks half way up after changing gear. So now EVERY time time I push the clutch in and take it out again, I use the side of my shoe to make sure it comes up all the way. I've even done it mid slide after a big handbrake entry a few times

[Gts-t]

What about when u have been driving on a road for years, your usual way to work or whatever. Then one day for some reason u actually look at some of the houses u are driving past etc and just go shit, as you wonder if they have always been lol

[(B1) MR_fanny]

nope i can't switch off, cant afford to loose my license again on purpose (like before) and i'm not going to loose it by accident,,,, always check my speed, always know where i am at any time and always know where i'm going.... always stop a couple of meters back from traffic lights so my front window lines up with the car next to me's boot.... never enter an intersection without checking that its clear even if i have the green light, i never rely on a gps and i always figure out alternative routes incase something happens, when i slow down i look infront of me and behind me at the same time, when someone drives behind me for a long time or drives too close to me for a while i purposely go to a roundabout and make it so i am then following them,

one lapse in concentration can kill you, i'm not ready to become a statistic.

not my fault im paranoid, dad's an ex 'D' who's since turned to the dark side and i sorta picked up his tricks of the trade..... and it works, never even had an accident, not even one thats not my fault

laugh if you will, it works for me....

edit* forgot to mention i always park next to a wall or a pylon in shoping centres so i reduce the risk of someone accidentally hitting my car with their door, keys or car...

I do most if not all that also. kinda sounds creepy now that I read it..ha. I still check for trains even thought the boom gates have finished and gone up. big intersections like the princes one at monash clayton campus i let the other cars go first before i do in case someone runs a red, abit selfish maybe but meh ive seen a few idiots run it.

[DRD-00F]

What about when u have been driving on a road for years, your usual way to work or whatever. Then one day for some reason u actually look at some of the houses u are driving past etc and just go shit, as you wonder if they have always been lol

haha, if I passanger somewhere along a familiar route, I tend to take notice of things like that, that I wouldn't normally... Huge houses n shit

[gfunkk]

when i drive im full paranoid looking for cops

and assume any ford or commo with 2 passengers is a D car

[DRD-00F]

haha ok, I definately do that...

when in the line, I can name any make and model of car behind me at any time, if I can't, 10 under the limit

[Johnny]

lolz i used to have those issues but because im still learning how to drive the manual gearbox im always alert.

Ill probably slip into my old habbits again.

[Damit]

my mate done it the other day

he remembered getting in his car and next thing he knew was pulled over by the police and all of a sudden started fraking because he didnt know why he had been pulled over

he just zoned right out