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People tend to not want to try new things when their car is not working properly. Maybe there should be driving simulators so that drivers can practice recovering from unexpected events without risking injury. It works for airplane pilots.

Basically, why guess about what to do in a crisis when you can try recovering from the crisis as many times as you want beforehand?

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In Denmark, as a requirement to get a drivers license, you have to go to a closed driving circuit and do brake and avoidance maneuvers at different speeds and go on a skid pad. Feel how the car reacts on the limits.

A standard drivers license test is done in a manual transmission car (which is what most people there drive anyway). I also think that using a manual transmission helps to understand how a car works.

But isn't shifting into neutral common taught and common knowledge I know my driving instructor, videos, and both my mother and father told me this when I was learning to drive.

Trying it and seeing that you don't die is stronger than "heard it from my dad".

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