>and once you have your license you're not re-training. Yet tire blowouts, black ice, hydro-planing, and many other things can happen.
This is the same feel good mental trap that the peddlers of vehicle inspections indulge in. Say you wave a magic wand and solve those issues. Congratulations, you've solved a rounding error.
The overwhelming majority of vehicle accidents are the result of people mis judging something and setting up a situation that cannot be harmlessly solved within the laws of physics. Like no amount of practice sliding around on ice or water is going to save you when you only have a few feet of wiggle room to regain control before the ditch. Like at best you might reduce the conversion rate from those situations into accidents from the realm of blackjack house odds to poker house odds. That's a poor ROI. Better to train people to just not get into those situations in the first place.
Aircraft take a very different approach because they generally have a ton of space to work in, but on the flip side they can't just stop what they're doing or slow down a ton on a whim nor do they operate in close proximity the way automotive traffic does. While you can make a comparison between automotive and professional aviation, there's just such a wide gulf between them that porting solutions in either direction is fraught with so many caveats as to be not really meaningful and so the comparison is only really an appeal to authority.
>every year in the mountain west, the first snow is a wreck-fest on the highways because people forget they need to drive more cautiously in the snow.
This framing is questionable at best.
If you don't do a thing for 6-8mo you're gonna get measurably worse at it. Just how it is. No amount of smug remembering is gonna replace muscle memory and feel.
> If you don't do a thing for 6-8mo you're gonna get measurably worse at it. Just how it is. No amount of smug remembering is gonna replace muscle memory and feel.
It's not the muscle memory and feel that matter so much. The second paragraph of your comment seems to agree ("Better to train people to just not get into those situations in the first place."). What matters is the training, such as remembering to slow down in poor conditions (smugly or not) and stay out of those situations.
This is the same feel good mental trap that the peddlers of vehicle inspections indulge in. Say you wave a magic wand and solve those issues. Congratulations, you've solved a rounding error.
The overwhelming majority of vehicle accidents are the result of people mis judging something and setting up a situation that cannot be harmlessly solved within the laws of physics. Like no amount of practice sliding around on ice or water is going to save you when you only have a few feet of wiggle room to regain control before the ditch. Like at best you might reduce the conversion rate from those situations into accidents from the realm of blackjack house odds to poker house odds. That's a poor ROI. Better to train people to just not get into those situations in the first place.
Aircraft take a very different approach because they generally have a ton of space to work in, but on the flip side they can't just stop what they're doing or slow down a ton on a whim nor do they operate in close proximity the way automotive traffic does. While you can make a comparison between automotive and professional aviation, there's just such a wide gulf between them that porting solutions in either direction is fraught with so many caveats as to be not really meaningful and so the comparison is only really an appeal to authority.
>every year in the mountain west, the first snow is a wreck-fest on the highways because people forget they need to drive more cautiously in the snow.
This framing is questionable at best.
If you don't do a thing for 6-8mo you're gonna get measurably worse at it. Just how it is. No amount of smug remembering is gonna replace muscle memory and feel.