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Your eyes should be scanning at all times. Those 'experienced' drivers have literal blind spots and are likely to enter a mental state akin to a sleep state.

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So what you’re saying is, learn from those most likely to get into car accidents, rather than the least likely?

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What an absurd strawman.

Your advice is for an experienced driver who wants to become even better. The original commenter's scenario talked about novice vs. experienced. If you just tell a novice driver to scan everywhere, it's not actionable advice. Since, as was pointed out, they have not built a good filter yet. They'll end up being stressed out looking all over the place, when the simpler advice that driver's ed gives like "check these 3 places every 30 seconds", while far from perfect, will get them looking around a little bit and training that filter without becoming overwhelmed.

> The original commenter's scenario talked about novice vs. experienced.

It talked about novice vs. "skilled, competent" drivers, which suggests the latter meeting some threshold beyond just experience. (Making their behavior even more likely to be a demonstration of skill and safe technique.)

Nope, my advice is for all drivers, as is taught to motorcyclists. Checking three places every thirty seconds is appalling advice.

Sadly, sites like this are full of ignorant, unskilled, overconfident motorists who don't like correct advice.

That’s not really what allows people to drive safely. Without filters youd treat stationary objects with the same deference as moving ones.

Well it works for Tesla's autopilot right? /s

I never said you should drive without mental filters, I said that your eyes should be scanning at all times. Lots of strawmen today.

A book on safe driving I read said in normal driving your eyes should mainly be on the car ahead, and every 5 or 10 seconds glance at your mirrors to see what else is going on and also do a broader scan. And of course in different circumstances like turning, you should look around much more.

That's what properly aligned mirrors and looking over your shoulder are for..? Any sleep state you could be referring to is caused by (a) exhaustion or (b) being unaware of being a bad driver.

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