Everyone who drives a motor vehicle in public should probably read this back to front. > 1-5. People emit certain conscious and subconscious signals ind

Everyone who drives a motor vehicle in public should probably read this back to front. > 1-5. People emit certain conscious and subconscious signals indicating their mental states and intent. Humans tend to follow predictable patterns of behavior. Continued observation of behaviors and the surrounding environment reveals patterns that can be used to derive other information about the person or people being observed. The goal of this observation is to determine the relevance of the information provided to the matter at hand. > 1-6. Soldiers can observe indicators based upon an established baseline. Soldiers can identify the enemy among civilians. Baselines are established when the enemy is not present because the lack of enemy presence allows the observer to determine the most complete baseline. Consider the "enemy" here to be the idiot who is about to pull into traffic without seeing you coming, and the signal to be how they did an aggressive stop, they blew the line of the stop sign completely, and they're displaying aggressiveness and impatience. Your foot should already be coming off the gas and covering the brake pedal, and if you see them move forwards at all you should be already actively braking. Generally any vehicle waiting at a stop sign I mentally label as a possible threat, but you can often be better prepared when you observe someone's actions in their vehicle that seems different than baseline. You don't need to react as strongly every time you see a vehicle waiting at a stop sign at a cross street to you, but when you see signs of aggressiveness, you should increase your own defensiveness and preparation to act. I'm sure I'll hit the sections on visualization and preparation for action later. If you watch r/roadcam vids on reddit you'll often see accidents that are the counter example to this where people speed at a consistent 8 mph over the limit all the time, and don't adjust their velocity ever for hazards or even just intersections and are caught completely unaware when another vehicle that displays a deviation from baseline, immediately then does something really dumb and collides with them. Related article: https://gedandclaire.com/downloads/a-fighter-pilots-guide-to-surviving-on-the-roads.pdf https://gedandclaire.com/downloads/a-fighter-pilots-guide-to...