Autistic People Can Drive

In The Politics of Autism, I discuss interactions between police and autistic people.  Sometimes they occur on the road.  A number of ASD people drive cars.

This keeps reminding me of the time when Jim Sinclair drove 1200 miles across America, to attend an #autism conference where they learned that #autistic people cannot drive... https://t.co/n5Q5Bi5Cnp

— Gill Loomes (@LoomesGill) December 27, 2019

The article is titled "The relation between driving errors and executive functioning in intellectually able young novice drivers with autism."  Highlights:

• People with ASD can be considered as skilled drivers.
• It is important to take different types of hazards into account.
• The relation between executive functioning and driving may be different in ASD.
• The relation between executive functioning and driving depends on the used measures.