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“It came from out of nowhere!”

Whether we’ve uttered those words following a close call on the roads or on the taxiway, they ring a bit false. Instead, a lapse in attention has allowed a vehicle, object, person, or animal to come into our perceptual field without our having registered that they’ve arrived until the last moment.

Julie Boatman
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