How does a driver know when to start braking and whether they are braking hard enough to avoid a collision? Where do we look when we steer around a curve?  Do race car drivers look somewhere different?

Why is it so hard to hit (and throw!) a knuckleball? (Time: 18:36)

 

Links to articles discussed:

A theory of visual control of braking based on information about time-to-collision

Time-to-contact judgment in the locomotion of adults and preschool children

Visual control of braking: a test of the tau hypothesis

Affordance-Based Control of Visually Guided Action

A two-point visual control model of steering

Where we look when we steer

Which parts of the road guide steering?

Using vision to control locomotion: looking where you want to go

Expert Baseball Batters Have Greater Sensitivity in Making Swing Decisions

 

Knuckleball graph link:

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2010/6/10/1511336/why-is-it-so-hard-to-hit-the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36E46a1bG70

 

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Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Split Single – Made for Breaking

Wheel on Fire – Hit You With a Kiss

Calexico – Bend to the Road

Mikal Cronin – Turn Around

Apache – Bloody Knuckles

 

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