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This time, as I manoeuvred the car around the bend, I was a child again, seeing my mother in the passenger seat, protectively braking as she muttered furiously about some "idiot driver" who'd swung out too close to the road's faded dividing line.
Unchecked, your fear mind (or "Mafia Mind," as I like to call it) will start its negative script about the idiot driver in front of you or your chatty office mate who made you late, creating constriction (stress).
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That said, nearly every objection raised is addressed in detail in the book -- the issue of progress, the issue of unskilled ("idiot") drivers, etc.
You become the car's long-range scanner, making sure idiot drivers don't crash into you.
Look out for the inevitable idiot drivers who think they can make it across the tracks ahead of the train even though the light has changed.
Though we assume our world view to be comprised of astute observation and cool rationality, it's just as likely to be the product of magical thinking about how the car keys teleport themselves into the fridge, or mitigating factors like why one attracts more than their fair share of idiot drivers on the way to an important engagement.
Psychologists call this the fundamental attribution error – we tend to attribute the mistakes of others to their personality or ability ("what an idiot!", "what a terrible driver!"), while excusing our own errors as situational ("that bit of road is dangerous", "I had to drive that fast or I would have been late").
That would be like one taking a test drive at a Ferarri dealership and then crashing the car into a tree -- it's not Ferarri's fault that the driver is an idiot.
So sit back, relax and let the driver take on all the idiots who don't know what a turn signal is.
Eventually, such systems could offer a replacement for the vague dashboard warnings often referred to as idiot lights, and even provide a useful diagnosis for the driver.
Shouting "look out!" and "don't let that idiot cut you off" can be very distracting to a driver when car pooling.
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