Starting a written piece with "I" is bad, but I have a confession to make. I'm a bad
driver. It's not often you hear that confession. It seems we are open for many things,
but not to being a bad driver. Why is that? Men (as an example) think they drive better
then women and vice-versa, using statistics from insurance companies to proof a point. A
point that is plainly wrong. I mean, I really don't believe on of either sexes is better in driving.
How many times have you been driving to work, home, for pleasure and not seen a single
mistake by another driver? We will always see another driver being in an accident, doing
something stupid, like forgetting to indicate, or worse, forgetting to look when overtaking.
Now if you are really honest, how many mistakes do you do each single drive? I for one
will speed - if only a bit - ignore stop signs (not coming to a complete stop), but mostly, we
will do things when not even thinking about it, the worst kind of thing in driving. I am sure
you all have those moments when driving that you think "how did I actually end up here?
I cannot recall the last mile of driving".
This brings me on to the subject of driver aids. Or rather, how driver aids make us
worse drivers. Because "lane assist" (a sensor detects that you go out of the lane
you're driving) might be a good thing in general, it does mean that we are apparently
absentminded when we need a help like that. Instead of thinking "let's take a break"
people will drive on after this reminder. ABS is a good help for braking, but the
general public simply brakes much later now. System fail, as was so nicely demonstrated
recently on television, which shows that we still need human supervision.
