The vehicle we drive, in our embodied self-awareness, becomes an extension of our body schema.
Today I’m excited since I found somebody writing about this embodiment phenomenon.

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“The body schema is the part of embodied self-awareness that senses that our body belongs to us and to no one else, as well as our sense of movement and balance, our ability to locate particular parts of ourselves, our sense of our body size and shape, and the awareness that our body has boundaries that separate us from objects and other bodies.”

“The body schema can be expanded or contracted in our relationship with objects in the world. The vehicle we drive, in our embodied self-awareness, becomes an extension of our body schema. We can “feel” the boundaries of the vehicle as if they were the boundaries of our bodies. This allows us to change lanes, follow at appropriate distances, and park. We may conceptually be aware that the vehicle is not actually part of our body, but in the act of driving, we sense it as an extension of self. The same is true of a tennis racket, skis, hammers and screwdrivers, and pencils (Ihde, 2002).”