Looking forward is good advice, but you dont always want to contantly do it. If other drivers can only see 100ft around/infront of them using "peripheral vision" then that scares the **** out of me. Its a good thing to scan the horizon for danger, but dont do it all the time. Most of the time if something is going to happen, its not already there waiting for you a mile down the road. Its going to happen to you 100-300ft infront of you got a 1000 yard killer stare at the horizon, then you or some other creature is going to die. The dangerous thing in the horizion is at least 20-30sec away, you got time to look at that after you dodge the child that just ran out in the street to get his ball (or the deer that just popped out of the woods)

What I do is a 40% long distance look and a 60% in my area look. So you get the best of both worlds. Someone about to cut you off and run you off the road? Yep I saw it because I was looking in my area. Huge truck overturned on highway? Yep I saw it because i was looking long distance for a second. But if i was 100%scaning the horizion, who knows how many stupid children will die or how many times I almost get run off the road.