Why We’re Not Naturally Good Drivers
7 min readDec 8, 2019
How the Dunning-Kruger Effect kills tens of thousands of US drivers every year
When I first arrived in the USA back in 1991 I was appalled by the atrocious standard of driving and not at all surprised by the subsequent discovery that the typical US driver has far more collisions (mainly low-speed, in parking lots and going through stop signs) than the typical Northern European driver.
