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If you drive the same route every day, for instance commuting, your mind doesn't bother storing events it has experienced hundreds of times before. So, twenty minutes into the drive when you happen to try to think back to what has happened recently, you get nothing. Because, nothing of interest to your mind happened.
Yes, I forget what the phenomenon is called but you wete actively driving and engaged. Your brain just didn't bother to take any notes because nothing note worthy happened during the commute you take nearly everyday, in the same car you've been driving for years.
One of the reasons I like hypermiling. Every drive I'm actively engaged with the car and my surroundings, and in a fun way too.
Driving a manual helps with that.
Yeah I've often stared into my rearview mirror to make sure there wasn't a massive pileup and there are still vehicles driving behind me as normal and not twelve cop cars chasing me down.
Hopefully not staring for too long