Compulsory daytime dipped headlights 36

Clive George

OK, this is yet another, seperate issue, you are butterting this is true. Can you prove it? (I'm not being chickeny, just trying to illustrate my point of view)

Exactly! Lack of meta-cognitive skills! Anyway, you can't prove that they are 'choosing' to do anything. You can only measure the outcome of their actions. You have to be very careful how you state that bit.

An expert in this area would be able to tell you.

OK, so I am mis-understanding this then - can you pease make it clearer for me?

I try my best.

"In ethology, risk compensation (sometimes known as risk homeostasis) is an effect whereby individual animals may tend to adjust their behaviour in response to perceived changes in risk. It is seen as self-evident that individuals will tend to behave in a more cautious manner if their perception of risk or danger increases. An other way of stating this is that individuals will behave less cautiously in situations where they feel "safer" or more protected."

So, I use DRL, therefore subconsiously I drive slightly more dangerously.

This is my point:

I have been taught to look and listen and be aware. If I then, even subconsiously (although you know that I'm going to say that's bollocks ;-)), start to drive worse, it's simply driving without due care and attention. The important thing is the "I have been taught" bit. Ignoring that is a slack habit which needs to be kept in check.

Even without a degree I would know that there is a proportion of people who it wouldn't work with, but for most people, it would work (normal distribution curves and all that).

T'other way round. Imagine if you went to court and said to the judge, "actually yer honour, I wasn't driving without due care and attention, I just risk compensated. I didn't know I was doing it, it was subconscious." Do you think you are going to get away with it?

Other way round. If there is an explanation for something, it is like having an audit trail of events. Errors can be identified and dealt with. Excusing something is just brushing it under the carpet.

You can. Oh yeah, you really really can.

Yep!

They will when they are told.

Whilst met-cognitive skills can be taught, attention is something that is dependant on various things, such as tiredness, etc, making it slightly trickier, but not impossible. Things like warning signs work this way. People taking responsibility for their actions helps too.

Yes, thats a crap bit of english on my behalf, appologies. For some reason I thought you meant in the cars themselves. Very bizarre. Sorry about that.

You can. Firstly though, my point about DRL isn't that people look for them as a priorty - it is that they provide a method of attracting your attention when they appear in your periphery.

Thing is, in your last paragraph, implying that people can't do anything about bad habits. No offence mate, but that ridiculous. You are an active part of the environment you are in.

I never said they did. That is a seperate, different issue. Actually, having read that last paragraph again, it's not precise about my intended meaning. I don't mean I use DRLs to illuminate cars around me and then I see them, I mean I use the presence of them on other cars to be aware earlier more aware of the cars on which they are. Sorry for any misunderstanding.

Dare I type it? DWD... I can't bring myself to finish that!

I have.

You're a very kind man.

Cheers Clive,

Roger.