Drivers love to tell each other and in companies different stories. Some of them turn out to be quite entertaining.
One of the Chelyabinsk businessmen drove a variety of cars from Vladivostok to the Urals at one time - from passenger cars to multi-ton trucks and buses. What happened to him on the way! The distance, you know, is considerable - 7,000 kilometers on the highway and more than 5,000 in a straight line. But he still cannot understand or explain two incidents.
One day he happened to drive along a road that … does not exist. Here is how it was. He walked along one of the most forgotten areas. Ahead - hundreds of kilometers on complete impassability! Suddenly a thought came to him from nowhere: you need to turn left, there is a great track. You pass all this off-road and go straight out onto decent asphalt. The thought struck him as attractive. And so he did. Indeed, the road turned out to be excellent, and even shorter. Saved a whole day.
Returning home, he rushed to the maps to find and remember that path. What was his surprise when he did not find anything like this on any of the cards !?
Okay, the trucker decided, I'll figure it out on the spot. The next time, following the same route, I hurried to that turn and … did not find it. No convolution, no road, nothing!
Seemed, dreamed, dreamed? Just what to do with those days that we managed to "win back". They are certainly a reality! Many times later he drove along that road, each time trying to find the shortest path between two points, but he could not find it.
Another time I stopped to change a punctured wheel. As soon as he took out a spare tire, a huge wolf came out of the forest and growled menacingly. The experienced driver did not lose his head, set fire to some kind of rubber, changed the wheel at an incredible speed - the rally is resting! Already in the cockpit, pressing the gas pedal, I remembered: I hadn't removed the jack! After a while, I realized that I didn't put it on. Changed a wheel without a jack on a truck!
While it is really difficult to come up with an explanation for the first incident, the second, in principle, fits well into the scheme of an “autopilot” behavior. A person in an emergency sometimes acts with such inconceivable agility that he does not have time to either realize or record the details of what is happening.
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Indirect confirmation of this is another story. Once the chebarkulets witnessed a terrible accident: 8 people died in the burnt car. How he turned around, how he flew to the scene of the accident, did not remember then, does not remember now: he says he did everything automatically.