I do academic research in human factors (as I suspect some of the other posters here do too) - the research on reaction times is very, very extensive and well conducted.
Simply dismissing it out of hand would be
confirmation bias.
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
There in lies a major problem. Why do we license drivers with absolutely no training or testing in siutations that may lead to the above??
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Same reason why people freak out over virtually every minor commercial aviation incident, yet happily hop into their cars, drive distracted, etc
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A simple PC simulation (read: inexpensive to implement) at the licensing stage to weed out those who have not been trained or simply can't respond
in a timely/adequate manner to an emergency might not be a bad idea.
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This is already in practice, for example:
http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/Licensing/...tion-test.aspx
http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home/...eptionTest.htm
http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/licensing/20625.asp