Change blindness. Inattentional blindness. Motion blindness.

Ignorance of these factors seems to lead to all sorts of misery inflicted by motor vehicle.

The 80% of self-assessed “better than average motorists” appear to have no idea just how easy “the eye” (brain) is to fool, and could not be less interested.

Just as there is no crying in baseball, there is no emotion in “driving”.

Emotions cloud the mind and constitute an additional unnecessary distraction for the “motorist” who does not realize that almost every motorist is always and forever a “distracted driver”.

Motorists almost without exception are distracted from the driving task by their internal monologues and their ignorance of the necessity of taking and maintaining “conscious control of their attention spotlight”.

If my anecdotal experience training truck drivers is any indicator, additional “training” has little or no effect because the vast majority of motorists believe they already know everything there is to know about driving (”I just need to learn to shift!”), and they taught it to themselves so no other authority has any qualifications to teach them anything.

The vast majority of experienced truck drivers assigned to me for remedial training lost their jobs anyway (and knew they were perched on that fragile bubble) when the data downloaded from their trucks after training failed to show *any* improvement in their operational habits.

Knowing what I know I find it especially distressing that gross negligence in the operation of motor vehicles is so commonly fallaciously excused as an “accident”.

The last quoted section of the post reminded me of a saying (attributed to St. Francis De Sales, I think) “There never was an angry man who thought his anger unjust.”

Shooting at someone is a misdemeanor? How isn’t that intended murder?

*shakes head*