People who were perfectly fine driving on snow at the tail end of winter go sliding all over the streets and highways when the first snowfall makes things slippery the next winter.
Do people forget how to drive?
It’s quite possible, says University of Wisconsin-Whitewater psychology professor David Havas.
On the other hand, it might be that those cars you saw in the median or slammed into utility poles this week were there for quite different reasons, says UW-W psychology professor Daniel Stalder.
Let’s look first at Havas’ thoughts.
Havas studies how the brain learns to control actions in varying situations—say, driving on icy streets versus dry pavement.
