"highway" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A phenomenon not unrelated to highway hypnosis enters through my eyes, lulls me dangerousry.
- On the other hand, drivers may fixate on a billboard which unexpectedly appears in a monotonous landscape, and drive straight into it (a phenomenon known as "highway hypnosis").
- The lack of need to maintain constant pedal pressure, which can help lead to accidents caused by highway hypnosis or incapacitated drivers; future systems may include a dead man's switch to avoid this.
- The concept of "highway hypnosis" was first described in a 1921 article that mentioned the phenomenon of "road hypnotism": driving in a trance-like state while gazing at a fixed point.
- The term "highway hypnosis" was coined by GW Williams in 1963.
- In the example of highway hypnosis, one stream of consciousness is driving the car while the other stream of consciousness is dealing with other matters.
- I'd probably get highway hypnosis, watching the snot run down all those little snotroads from their noses to their lips.
- I believe that the motion of the bus and the ever-changing view out the window cause my mind to wander farther and faster in a beneficial kind of highway hypnosis.
- The guide said the only side effect of driving along the 42,500 miles of Interstate that crisscross America was something called highway hypnosis.
- The course started in Bazas, just enough south of Bordeaux to grow corn instead of wine grapes, and included so many long, straight roads heading south that highway hypnosis set in.
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