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Originally Posted by Canehdianman
It doesn't. I usually drive 10-20% over the limit, but I will always move over when someone comes up behind me going faster than me. I even manage to do it without acting like i'm holier than they are. It's just common courtesy.
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Weird. I always presumed it was 15% or 10 kmph whichever is lower, but for practical reasons, don't do 11 kmph or over unless highway, then maaaaybe 15 kmph or over the cops won't bug you.
It at least seems like most photo radars peg people going 11 kmph and over.
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Originally Posted by troutman
When It Comes To Driving, Most People Think Their Skills are Above Average
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/...e-average.html
As predicted, across all experiments participants believed that they were exceptional drivers—but only according to their own definitions of good driving.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority
Svenson (1981) surveyed 161 students in Sweden and the United States, asking them to compare their driving skills and safety to other people. For driving skills, 93% of the U.S. sample and 69% of the Swedish sample put themselves in the top 50%; for safety, 88% of the U.S. and 77% of the Swedish put themselves in the top 50%.[26]
McCormick, Walkey and Green (1986) found similar results in their study, asking 178 participants to evaluate their position on eight different dimensions of driving skills (examples include the "dangerous–safe" dimension and the "considerate–inconsiderate" dimension). Only a small minority rated themselves as below the median, and when all eight dimensions were considered together it was found that almost 80% of participants had evaluated themselves as being an above-average driver.[27]
One commercial survey showed that 36% of drivers believed they were an above-average driver while texting or sending emails compared to other drivers; 44% considered themselves average, and 18% below average.[28]
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I'd agree. I find it sad that people with licenses are impressed I can do a parallel park. Seriously speaking, we had to pass that portion of a test to get a license. It's literally in the same realm of the people impressed I can do basic math without a calculator or stare at me like I'm an alien because I know how to do long division.
Spacial and situation awareness stuff is also horribly at low levels. This part is easily determined by asking, "Hey, remember the part in the license test where you had to keep saying all the potential hazards you were driving past?" There's the "It was so stupid, it was a joke." crowd and the "It was hard, I couldn't find anything to say." crowd. The latter often IMO suffers from terrifying levels of tunnel vision when driving.
It's sad that the majority of people can be impressed by basic skills.
