Driving Slow is a short 3D animated work examining egocentrism, social judgment, and the subjective construction of normal behavior. Using observational humor, the animation explores the familiar tendency of drivers to perceive anyone traveling slower as incompetent and anyone traveling faster as reckless.
The work can be understood through concepts in social psychology, particularly naive realism and attribution theory. The central character implicitly positions his own driving behavior as the rational standard against which everyone else is evaluated. Other drivers are therefore judged not according to their individual circumstances, but according to their deviation from his personally constructed norm.
By translating a familiar piece of observational comedy into 3D animation, Driving Slow transforms an everyday experience into a brief study of perception and social judgment. The automobile becomes a contained psychological space in which individual perspective is mistaken for objective reality.
Through compressed timing, character performance, and visual satire, the animation uses humor as a form of critical inquiry, examining how easily subjective experience becomes a framework for judging the behavior of others.
The work also draws on traditions of observational satire associated with comedians such as George Carlin, using everyday behavior as a way to expose contradictions in human judgment and social perception.
