Reading these comments trivialising the driving task makes me wonder if such commenters have ever actually driven or if they are just prone to magical thinking.

Reading these comments trivialising the driving task makes me wonder if such commenters have ever actually driven or if they are just prone to magical thinking. I would say it's a testament to the human ability to reduce very complex tasks to very simple descriptions that can be kept out of rational awareness. The impressive thing is that even the wrong beliefs of a given person work for them. Remember, the people effectively arguing that driving is "easy" still understand that humans fail at it regularly. So it's mismatch in their understanding of how smart humans are, something that probably doesn't impact their daily lives.