Should I be annoyed?

[brianhaddon]

and goes on - perhaps - to start to answer Brian's concerns:

Perhaps

What that study concludes is:
"Despite thousands of miles behind the wheel, decades of experience, and intensive specialised training, it appears that expert drivers are just as susceptible to illusions of superiority as non-experts."

You tell us what having illusions of higher skill levels is likely to have on driving . . . Will it inhibit or encourage a person in their driving? But be clear: it's talking about superiority to other, similarly-trained, drivers - not 'untrained' drivers.

That is my question too. Do these 'illusions' have a real time effect of perhaps making a driving taking more risks because they think they can cope? Or do they approach the task in a more businesslike manner believing they are performing better? Or do they just apply themselves and not think of comparisons when they drive but only when asked? It reminds me of when I lived in computerland as an analyst/programmer. Now and then I would hear someone being run down as being rubbish. The same feelings of superiority floated across the office. The effects of being over confident would perhaps be not so disastrous as on the road. However in general there were no realtime effects.
Regards
Brian Haddon

[WhoseGeneration]

Interesting, experts and non experts.
Whatever field, it surely only requires that part of the education in that field should be that no one is infallible?
Thus, CRM in aviation, peer review in many fields and, here, driving days.
CRM is interesting in that it encourages those "lower" to question those "higher".
There are other examples of the "lower" being asked to consider the performance of the "higher".
There is a problem though and that relates to the skill level of any particular activity.