Quote Originally Posted by WBHenry View Post
Those of us who ride motorcycles know the feeling. Whenever a cager thoughtlessly pulls into an interception and a bike ends up t-boning it, the cager always says, "Officer, I didn't see him." They say the same thing when they hit a deer or a train. A TRAIN for crying out loud! So many people are the center of their own universe and the rest of us are just distractions who get in their way.

And don't get me started on people who think they can "multi-task." Physiologists have already started to debunk the idea that people can actually multi-task. (They may switch between activities very quickly in their mind, but there is still a time lag, so there is no true multitasking...only accidents waiting to happen.)

WBHenry, here are a couple of book suggestions that deal specifically with the topic you are discussing, if you are interested in it: The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us, by Daniel Simons, (the motorcycle discussion brought that to mind) and Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, by David Eagleman (time lag topic brought that to mind).

There might be a few surprises, but it's all very interesting.