I can understand that you dont have to make physical effort to feel tired, because I work as a computer programmer and I feel tired after making mental effort, but this effort seems way bigger than the one required to drive, yet, after 4,5 hours of driving I feel way more exhausted than after 8,10 hours of coding.
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Driving a car is one of the most mechanicaly involved things an average human does in the course of a day. I don’t mean mechanical as in the machine that is the car, I mean the different mechanics your brain is going through to pilot a car safely. You are constantly visually and sonically alert for other drivers, signs, lights, potholes, what have you. Then you have your arms controlling direction, feet controlling speed (even moreso if it’s a manual transmission). Add in turn signals, car radio, climate controls and all the other comforts of a car and it adds up to a lot of things constantly and simultaneously happening.
Also, you are stuck in a pretty static position while driving so muscles get sore and stiff.
Its kinda mindblowing how easy it is for a person to get a driver’s license when you break down the act of driving a car on public roads into every little action and look at the web of how its all connected.
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