30% of you are genetically predisposed to drive poorly
11-04-2009, 01:25 PM
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30% of you are genetically predisposed to drive poorly
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/11/04/n...isposed-to-dr/
Well, this explains everything. Scientists scientifically studied the brains of 29 people. Of those, 22 had normal brains while the other seven had a genetic variant that stops their brain from secreting something called a neurotrophic factor (BDNF). Without the BDNF, new memories aren't formed properly. And people with this gene variant also can't drive.
Those 29 people were placed in cars on a closed-circuit course with lots of difficult turns. Then they repeated the test four days later. Results? Not only did the gene variant-brained people do worse on the first day of testing, they did worse on the second day, too.
And now the kicker – 30% of Americans have this genetic variant. Said the scientist in charge, "I'd be curious to know the genetics of people who get into car crashes. I wonder if the accident rate is higher for drivers with the variant." As it stands now, there is no commercially available test to check for this variant. In other words, be careful out there.
[Source: CNN | Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images]
Those 29 people were placed in cars on a closed-circuit course with lots of difficult turns. Then they repeated the test four days later. Results? Not only did the gene variant-brained people do worse on the first day of testing, they did worse on the second day, too.
And now the kicker – 30% of Americans have this genetic variant. Said the scientist in charge, "I'd be curious to know the genetics of people who get into car crashes. I wonder if the accident rate is higher for drivers with the variant." As it stands now, there is no commercially available test to check for this variant. In other words, be careful out there.
[Source: CNN | Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images]
11-04-2009, 01:36 PM
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what's the other 69.9%'s excuse?
11-04-2009, 03:56 PM
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new memories aren't formed properly.
day, really, on a 15-20 turn track before I'm confident that I know exactly what's behind that
hill or over that crest.
11-04-2009, 05:01 PM
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11-05-2009, 10:48 AM
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bad driving record, tickets, a few fender benders. It's like she is incapable of learning. One example is when I met her she had a sporty turbo car with a 5 speed. The first ride kind of scared me. We are driving down the freeway and she has the car in 4th. after awhile I ask if she ever used 5th gear on the freeways. She gave this blank look like "Why would I do that!" She had owned this car for 2-3 years and I noticed she would shift without any real reason or pattern. So we are out in my Vette one of the next days and I told her to watch the tachometer to use as a shifting guide. She actually ask me what the tachometer was. Engine rpm was a foreign word. You would think that a nurse had to have some smarts to pass 4 years of medical school?
I had to kick her to the curb. If they don't get it by the time they are 42 years old they never will.
