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Originally Posted by Christ
As a professional driver, typically in charge of 4-8 peoples lives at a time, not including my own, I feel like I HAVE TO BE a better than average driver. More alert than the guy near me, etc.
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My job includes quite bit of driving, so I feel like that too, if only sake of my own life, but as I spend so much time on road, it is more likely to get into situation where life can be in danger so I feel that I'm making difference to odds by being as much aware what is happening around me as possible.
Quite often I get sensation of knowing before other driver what he will do next, their signaling comes lot later than I know they are about to signal, that is ability to read telltale signs of others, which comes when you drive more, it helps also to get better fuel economy and also to cheat odds a bit. However if I continue to drive as much to retirement age, it is more than likely that I will have bad accident, that is by numbers, maybe that too can be cheated with being very alert, at least I hope so.
I have driven only about 2 million km from 1995, but I think that there is not much surprises on roads anymore, not even those bad mergers seem to surprise me anymore, hopefully it is not just that I'm becoming blind to my surroundings...