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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
If humans were other than they are, maybe the ideal of a driver isolated from all inputs except an endless highway might work. But humans aren't that way, and they don't work that way. In city traffic, or on a highway near a city, you have your stimulation from other drivers (read: idiots). But if that isn't present, there has to be some stimulation for the brain, or it will become even more bored, and react even more slowly, than if it was listening to the radio, or an audiobook, or a passenger.
In short: boredom is not conducive to alertness, and when one's only source of input is an endless white line, it is inevitable.
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I just realised you're American (or similar). We don't have open roads here, we have extremely crouded ones, with the vast majority of drivers not even looking out of the front window never mind anything else. You need to be alert all the time, because they do unpredictable things, and you are always surrounded by them.
With fewer vehicles to worry about you could probably do it, but you would still need to switch your mind to hazard mode sometimes, and that is when you would lose your place in the story. Which was my point, really -- that you can't do both things at the same time.