21 THEY JUST DON’T KNOW

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21 THEY JUST DON’T KNOW

I see a lot of dumb and dangerous mistakes being done on the highways and I have thought about it as I watch those drivers deliberately do the things that they do. I have asked myself why would those people do something so obviously wrong and sit there as if they are good drivers and perfectly correct; it’s simply because they don’t know their mistake and are driving the way they see everyone else drive or are driving the way they want it to be, for their own convenience, or are driving the way they think it should be for them.

Instead of studying the driver’s manual, they learn to drive by following everyone else’s mistakes. This sets up a system of wrong habits in any one area because in ones area of driving, everyone is still trying not to hit everyone else so they compensate for each others mistakes with another mistake; creating small pockets of areas where habitual mistakes are made, on a regular bases. This is fine as long as everyone learns these mistakes and only drives around those drivers that also know and practise those mistakes. However, what normally happens is that someone from another area, that has learned a different set of mistakes to survive in their area, drives into the area and the two make their habitual mistakes at the same time and run into each other.

An example of two mistakes being made at the same time that I have seen is the drivers in my area will stop at an intersection at a right turn, merge corner. [a corner that they are not supposed to stop at] They teach and make everyone behind them stop also. The cars that are supposed to make a right hand merge into that lane [those coming straight through the intersection from the first driver’s left or those that are coming from across the intersection and making a left turn into the lane beside the first driver’s lane] have gotten used to the traffic stopping for them and, now, do not look when they are going into that lane but will even cross a solid line to get into that lane, thinking that they have the right-of-way. Two mistakes that are working locally because everyone is doing it; but when someone comes along that knows the correct way to drive through a merge intersection and does not stop, the drivers making the illegal lane change into that lane, get upset because their habits are violated.

The driving manual has the correct way to drive safely in any situation but most drivers do not want to take the time to study and learn it. We want to learn by being ‘hands on’ drivers and, when we have a crash, try to justify our ignorance with ‘I didn’t know’.

‘I didn’t know’ is not a legal excuse in a court of law because everything is available for you to know the correct procedure. ‘I didn’t know’ is only a beginning, dumb or lazy persons excuse for not learning the proper way to do something before they do it. [Much like us men when we are asked to put together one of those ‘assembly required’ items and ignore the manual thinking that we can do it on our own or a woman that relies on her husband to teach her all that she needs to know.]

You get the point; learning from anyone or anything other then the proper manual or those, that are following the procedure of the proper manual, is the dumbest and most dangerous thing anyone can do. I dare you to take a look in your back seat at those little gems that are your children and tell me that their safety is not that important.