Cars and planes...
Pax Boy,
A nice analogy, which just shows how the brain prioritises events.
However the likely scenarios on the road are myriad - on a sterile runway much less so - and those that do exist are often trained for in detail.
Also there are two pilots but only one "pilot" in your car, so the back up system is not in place (unless your mother in law is in the back seat...)
Here are two professionals, with an out of the ordinary situation, who have to assess the situation on the basis of trained emergencies and system knowledge and come up with a procedure, possibly also based on trained procedures to deal with it.
If they had managed it, this thread would not be here. As they didn't, it is. It is a fine line...
Last edited by Few Cloudy; 27th Aug 2007 at 17:02.