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> Reading history to comprehend the present is like watching videos of other people driving, while you are driving Completely off-topic but watching car accide

> Reading history to comprehend the present is like watching videos of other people driving, while you are driving Completely off-topic but watching car accidents video on Youtube clearly made me way more prudent. As long as you have not seen accidents, you feel that you have a way better control of your vehicle that you actually have. Watching accident video should be a mandatory part of driving training.

mkr-hn 4y ago
/r/IdiotsInCars made me a better driver. There is still some new failure mode I haven't seen that I don't know how to prepare for. That's the kind of thing studying the mistakes of others can't prepare you for. Not recognizing that can lead people to discover those new failure modes. Example: Russia expected a quick victory because it did well the last few times it tried to run over a smaller country. They didn't anticipate Ukraine taking those years Russia waited after the last one to prepare while training people up in the ongoing fights in the east.
- pjc50 4y ago
  > Russia expected a quick victory because it did well the last few times it tried to run over a smaller country. They should have watched more Russian dashcam videos.