No, I don't mean those little pullouts alongside the highway where you learn that the normally peaceable Jeremiah Bunyon (a former Sunday School teacher according to the plaque), armed with nothing but a willow switch, single-handedly defended himself against a horde of murdering savages, killing 14 of them while surveying the new west. What I am talking about is something that also goes by the name of "target fixation".

Have you ever noticed how many times a set of skid marks terminates where a road sign is/was? Or a light pole? How you can be driving across hundreds of miles of plain, flat ground and there are car parts scattered around the only rock cairn for three hundred miles?

This is something I learned about in racing, but it applies to everyday driving too (like when you are passing someone and they drift into your lane). Basically, you have a tendancy to go where you look. So, my advice to you, is make sure where you are looking is somewhere you want to go.

In motorcycle safety training they teach this basic principle. I'm of the opinion it should be taught to all new drivers.

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The problem with your analogy:..............

The statement is based on the aspect that people are trained drivers.......

In all aspects of motorvehicle use, drivers are only taught the basic aspects of driving..................(the minimum requires skills to safely drive)
Unfortunately this applies to all drivers across the board. Civilian drivers, commercial drivers, motorcycles, etc.

Receiving an operating license does not mean you are a driver, it just means you meet the minimum requirments to drive. This is why states have restrictions on new drivers.

To have the skills you are refering to requires minmum of years of experience or added training IE: Defensive driving courses, accident avoidance courses, etc.
People do not invest in these types of things unless they are required too. Most times after it has been too late.

For instance, I also ride a motorcycle and I have taken the basic riding course and the advanced riding courses that are offederd. I spoke with riders that have been riding for years and never taken the course. Most of the time these people have been down or had an accident. I am not saying these course again remove or will make you super driver/rider but it does help.
I have also had the defensive driver course for 4 wheelers and have had 2 high speed courses.
People do not believe they cannot drive..........Most of the people here in the US could not handle driving on the audobahn (spelled?) in germany...
Driving requires attention, higher thought processing, good decission making.

If poeple wanted to invest in themselves the information and training is available..........

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Life is too short, try to enjoy it.....
Maybe we should drive buses

Funny you should mention this. I spent some time working in Germany. One of the major differences there, especially on the Autobahn (you were close), is the lane discipline exhibited ... if you are not passing someone then you are as far right as possible. Even when I was driving an Audi S8 at 240+ km/h (150+ mph), I never camped out in the left lane because there was always someone driving faster (usually a family in a minivan )

It sure took some getting used to blasting by the cops doing 80+ mph faster than them ... but I adapted quickly.

The education requirement for drivers there is so far above what is required here. There are some spectacular crashes on the Autobahn though.

This is what I learned, and what I enjoyed so much about racing. I raced some very high-level machines, both bikes and cars. With some of them, it was amost "go where you think", never mind "go where you look".

I wish they would increase the requirements here, but it will never happen.