ABSTRACT

Our chapter is primarily concerned with the perceptual estimations that an individual is asked to make in the process of their journey. The capacities through which humans succeed (and sometimes fail) in these tasks have been around approximately 4 million years, although vehicle-type prosthetics have only been around for some thousands of years. In fact, fundamentally necessary psychomotor coordination is multiple millions of years older than human beings themselves, but since chariot driving demands these common skills, we can say that power-assisted transportation is not that “new” either. The presence of the vehicle dictates the change in kinematic parameters now involved in the whole process, and it is a testament to human adaptive capabilities that most drivers are very successful even in these changed and constrained circumstances that evolution would be challenged to have foreseen. However, we know to our detriment that such capacitates are not perfect and so our search for improved transport efficiency and driving safety continues.