I just posted this in a thread about Confirmation Bias…weird to be posting the same thing in 2 different threads. In any case Confirmation bias is a huge issue in driving, Combine it with a near total lack of feedback and you have the average driver. Unskilled and unaware of it. The list of things the average driver is bad at or ignorant of is long.
Feedback and the lack of, take a look at drivers turning left, take a look at yourself turning left, how many drivers out there are crossing the yellow line while making a left turn? How long is it going to take for you to figure out how to turn left and actually stay in your own lane? 5 years? 45 years? Why is that guy turning left from the right lane (in a dual left turn set up) half way in the left hand turn lane while going through the turn? why is he ALL the way in the left hand turn lane while going through the turn?
people suck, the education part sucks, and the test sucks, I don’t know how you would expect drivers to be anything other than terrible given what they have to work with and the fact that we have a road test so easy I am convinced you could train a chimp to pass it given a big enough pile of bananas to work with.