why a deer freezes in the headlights?
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They haven’t evolved to understand cars, and their reaction time is not fast enough to make a decision, if you are driving on a fast road, any animal or even person would react the same way, if you have less than a second from seeing the car to thinking where to jump out the way, humans just have the advantage of understanding the noise of a car before we see it.
Similar reason a rabbit will try to outrun the car running straight into front of you rather than simply move to the side out of the way; in nature a predator would catch them if they jumped to the side,
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