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>>jger15+(OP)
How many people drive their car daily or near daily? How many people are good drivers?

The ratio of those two values shows, in my experience, that a lot of people are not very good at things they spend a lot of time doing, and are generally unaware of their own shortcomings

The average American spends 4.2 hours a week in the car. A typical 40 year old american has driven around 50,000 miles. For someone to continue to be bad at driving after that much experience, it must be a fundamental limitation on their capabilities for learning, thinking, or understanding. Drive to work any given day in Denver and you will see that a large number of people suffer from those fundamental limitations.

This article seems to present a world where most people the author interacts with can think critically about a complex topic, and are interested in learning or improving themselves. I wish I lived where the author lives, because I have had multiple jobs across multiple countries and never encountered an average population like the author describes.

>>stephe+lc
Bad drivers are a poor example. Driving is an inherently social activity. It involves subconsciously predicting other people's behaviors. Each region has its own definition of what is the norm. This includes things like acceptable speeding, lane switching behavior, average distance between cars, etc. When reality differs from expectations, we label them as a bad driver.

But are they a bad driver? Maybe. Or maybe they are driving according to another region's expectations. So any time you see a bad driver from another region, or you are the one in another region, stop and think is it really bad, or just unexpected?

For this reason I ignore all claims of "People from X are terrible drivers." No, they just drive differently.