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There are two kinds of drivers: drivers who know they're fallible, and fallible drivers who don't. Maybe you're an outlier who doesn't make these mistakes, and
by ajross 3y ago
There are two kinds of drivers: drivers who know they're fallible, and fallible drivers who don't. Maybe you're an outlier who doesn't make these mistakes, and if so I applaud your skill. But most likely you're just like the rest of us, and have the added handicap of self-censoring your mistakes as "someone else's fault". Data filtering is a hell of a drug, as it were.
- toasterlovin 3y agoI’ve had ABS activate like twice in my entire life. Agree with the person you’re responding to: if ABS activates regularly when you’re driving then you may not be a safe driver.
- cdchn 3y agoI think for this person FSD might actually be an improvement.
- ajross 3y agoYour inappropriate mockery notwithstanding, that was exactly my point. I'm happy you agree.
- cdchn 3y agoYes, I do agree. The hope is that full-self-driving systems will help people who should really not be on the road, negligent drivers, the elderly, those with impaired capacity from drugs and alcohol, etc.
- fragmede 3y agoABS regularly engages if you drive anywhere icey. It's not a skill issue if the ground friction is basically 0.
- amenhotep 3y agoThere's only one kind of bad driver: one who's convinced all their mistakes are normal reasonable mistakes that everyone makes occasionally.
- treflop 3y agoI’m someone that checks my side mirror when I make a turn just to collect data on whether my tire touches the line. So I agree with OP. If you consider mistakes like “not checking your blind spot and aborting a lane change” as a part of normal driving, I would have to say that you are not a good driver. You don’t get to a point where you become proud of your work without keeping track of your mistakes and improving on them.
- brookst 3y agoWell said. I try to be 100% attentive (spoiler: am not perfect) and rather than losing interest in “boring” driving situations I play a game of trying to guess what other drivers will do, and being very conscious of whether I am right. It’s mostly a way to maintain alertness, but it’s also helped discover patterns. Like, on city streets, if someone pulls out in front of you unreasonably and makes you get on the brakes, odds are good they will are only going a short distance and will turn, likely necessitating braking. But yeah, just throwing up hands and declaring that everyone probably makes the mistake is no way to improve, at anything.
- cdchn 3y agoThose things you listed are not "oopsie daisy" mistakes everyone makes, those are situations that arise from negligent driving.
- danielheath 3y agoI'm not a _good_ driver - the rumble strip one will happen to me about once a year - but I haven't had an "ABS prevented a crash" in well over a decade.