I'll give a counterpoint based on my own experience.
When I travelled to the US, from New Zealand, to interview with a certain large company, I actually managed to mis-read road signs, in particular traffic lights, on a number of occasions, much to my alarm.
I am not a bad driver - and there were a number of factors - perhaps being tired from the trip, so, it isn't clear cut. But, I remember feeling like the traffic lights just didn't look like traffic lights - the intersections just felt off - so off, that I actually failed to recognise them in some instances.
It was actually a bit upsetting at the time, I've never quite experienced anything like it, but I think it's possible that the human system can fail to work if the input is sufficiently different from what is "typical".
To be fair, this was in Christchurch not too long after one of the bigger earthquakes but I got severely messed around by the ambiguity of some of the road signs, to the point where I once ended up on the wrong side of the road.
When I travelled to the US, from New Zealand, to interview with a certain large company, I actually managed to mis-read road signs, in particular traffic lights, on a number of occasions, much to my alarm.
I am not a bad driver - and there were a number of factors - perhaps being tired from the trip, so, it isn't clear cut. But, I remember feeling like the traffic lights just didn't look like traffic lights - the intersections just felt off - so off, that I actually failed to recognise them in some instances.
It was actually a bit upsetting at the time, I've never quite experienced anything like it, but I think it's possible that the human system can fail to work if the input is sufficiently different from what is "typical".