
How can cognitive skills affect driving?
For experienced drivers, it is easy to forget just how complex driving is..... what do you think driving involves? Steering the steering wheel? Using the pedals? Indicating? Keep going, you'll think about scanning, procedures, taking safe gaps, following the road rules... however, driving is much more than turning the steering wheel and pressing the pedals! To be a driver, we need to be able to read the traffic environment and make decisions VERY quickly, react, and plan ahe