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When I tell people that a driver should strive to see 100% of the road where their tires will go when driving, I inevitably get a lot of responses from people who say it's impossible to do. I mean, you don't have to consciously focus on it, just make sure you can see it. That's what I learned in my defensive driving class, and I've been doing it for decades. Obviously, I can't do it perfectly, so there are rare times where I hit a pothole I didn't see, but I don't think you should be driving if you don't try to do this.
I always wonder how many potholes/animals/small children these people hit with their cars.
If it's impossible to do, that's a good reason to reject the idea of everyone driving in the first place.
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
I agree. Even looking the road all the time you can't see everything at the same time: there are the mirrors, there is stuff far away, there is stuff close. I really can't drive if I don't pay attention the the roaf
As someone with big wheels and thin tires on a low car I’m hyper vigilant about these sorts of things.