ritz_labringue parent
I don't think I agree with the premise. Sure there are lots of car accidents in absolute terms, but given how many people drive and how error-prone driving inherently is, most people are actually pretty decent drivers
Driving is not error prone, cars rarely break in unexpected ways.
People driving and making decisions are error prone.
A simple test is to watch how people turn. Do they turn early potentially hitting the curb or cutting it too close to pedestrians. Or do they increase their radius by turning late? The latter are better drivers.
Edit: here are more tests,
- do they signal
- do they cutoff others
- do they let those who signal in
- do they drive too slow or too fast for the given road and conditions
- do they have an awareness of all cars around them
- do they block the passing lane
- do they maintain a reasonable distance behind other cars
- do they let emergency vehicles pass
etc.