highway hypnosis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An automatic mental state in which a person continues to drive a vehicle safely and correctly but without the recollection of having done so.

Word forms

highway hypnosis

Etymology

Coined by G. W. Williams in 1963

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