You don’t need to have sat in a rally car. The split second decision making is the context, not the method. The context doesn’t have to match perfectly. They just share the attribute of “high cognitive load”.

Did you read the link I posted? The essence of the idea is you have one person who takes physical action, makes small decisions and take orders. That person is called “driver”. You have another person who makes larger decisions and gives orders. That person is called “navigator”.

The dynamic I just described is true of rally car driving and strong style pair programming. It’s not true for most pair programming or most other types of driving.