I disagreed with you and went looking in the article for evidence (yeah bad, epistemologically). I actually found evidence for your point. The largest cause of fatal crashes is Generally distracted or "lost in thought" (daydreaming) at 64%. That happens to most people,.

▲

missinglugnut an hour ago | parent | next [-]

How many of those 64% had their accident because of phones/drugs/recklessness and claimed to be distracted instead? With all the liability and shame involved in fatal crashes there's absolutely no way people are going to honestly self report illegal behavior.

▲

Gigachad an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The human brain was not designed for a task which requires hours of siting down doing mostly nothing while being hyperfocused the entire time ready to take over in an instant on the rare occasion something happens. While running or cycling your brain is actively engaged keeping yourself upright and avoiding obstacles which keeps you alert.

	▲	tialaramex an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's true. Humans are bad at this task. On the railways they have a problem with this too, "Lookout" seems like a ludicrously easy job, but it's basically impossible because you must pay attention to an incredibly boring thing for hours or your friends might die. Getting rid of human lookouts should be a priority but it feels easy and so it's hard to motivate this.
	▲	nomel an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Seems at least somewhat comparable to walking through a forest full of predators, while, say, hunting/gathering.

▲

tialaramex an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

You can see it in what people say right after an accident, stuff like "He came out of nowhere".