Woman About Town

SARAH DITUM

I AM LEARNING TO DRIVE.The most remarkable thing about this is that I’ve managed to get so far through adult life without doing it already — particularly given that I grew up in a village where buses were mythical beasts, to be summoned with sacrifices and beseeching prayers. But I’m doing it now, and it’s going pretty well. Next stop: the theory test, so I’m practising for the highway code multiple choice and hazard perception. If, unlike me, you got your licence pre-2002, you’ll never have experienced the uncanny valley of the hazard perception test: a series of computer-generated clips that simulate the experience of driving with your head stapled immovably to the seat. To pass, you have to identify the hazard and click the screen to show you’d react in…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2023

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