What’s even worse, is that I am a person who tries to do a lot of defensive driving, and I’ve been doing it for decades, and I’m just constantly aware of all the little mistakes I still make. Maybe you can say it’s the Dunning-Krueger effect, but I think I’m objectively not a very good driver, and I don’t know what that makes all of the other people out there.
But overall, I really do agree that people shouldn’t be driving if they can avoid it. (I can’t avoid it at the moment.)
i think it’s basically impossible to be a good driver on a normal road above 40km/h, we’re just not at all built to handle those speeds mentally and unless it’s a mostly empty highway there’s simply too much going on.
80km/h is the highest anyone but police and emergency services should ever be going on a road, and even 80 is me stretching it because i know just that would make many people want to actually literally unironically murder me in cold blood if i said it in public.
Like 5 years ago I had a pedestrian walk into my blind spot while I was checking for traffic in the opposite direction (not sure how I didn’t see them before i looked the opposite direction) so I started to move then hit the breaks as I saw them exit the blind spot immediately in front of me. I’ve been thinking about the mistake ever since and I’m extra careful to make sure there is no chance there’s a person hiding behind my A beam ever
Edit: also huge benefit to bikes is no obstructions to your view. You can see everything on and off the road
What’s even worse, is that I am a person who tries to do a lot of defensive driving, and I’ve been doing it for decades, and I’m just constantly aware of all the little mistakes I still make. Maybe you can say it’s the Dunning-Krueger effect, but I think I’m objectively not a very good driver, and I don’t know what that makes all of the other people out there.
But overall, I really do agree that people shouldn’t be driving if they can avoid it. (I can’t avoid it at the moment.)
i think it’s basically impossible to be a good driver on a normal road above 40km/h, we’re just not at all built to handle those speeds mentally and unless it’s a mostly empty highway there’s simply too much going on.
80km/h is the highest anyone but police and emergency services should ever be going on a road, and even 80 is me stretching it because i know just that would make many people want to actually literally unironically murder me in cold blood if i said it in public.
Like 5 years ago I had a pedestrian walk into my blind spot while I was checking for traffic in the opposite direction (not sure how I didn’t see them before i looked the opposite direction) so I started to move then hit the breaks as I saw them exit the blind spot immediately in front of me. I’ve been thinking about the mistake ever since and I’m extra careful to make sure there is no chance there’s a person hiding behind my A beam ever
Edit: also huge benefit to bikes is no obstructions to your view. You can see everything on and off the road