How does another driver know what I am thinking?
“Hi Ingrid You taught our son how to drive (practicing with him, and modelling good driving, have made us better drivers as well). The following comes up for me when I am driving around Victoria, I wonder what your thoughts are? How does another driver know what you are thinking? When you are driving in your own lane, and approaching an intersection or a driveway, have you ever experienced Another car racing up to a stop sign and then suddenly stopping at the last moment Another car...
Read MoreFuel for the Mindful Driver: Anticipation
FUEL FOR THE MINDFUL DRIVER: So this is what happened to day — Traveling in the right hand lane on Bay Street towards the hospital, a black car is in the left-turn-only lane, just before Cook Street. He’s just a bit ahead of me, we are both traveling at 40 km/h and since I do not see his left signal on, I start to wonder if he just might want to come into my lane. I had already made sure that even though he is a bit ahead of me, I am not in his blind spot (in case he does not...
Read MoreAre streets without traffic signs conceivable?
“The many rules [of the road] strip us of the most important thing: the ability to be considered.” Is the Dutch traffic guru Hans Monderman right that we are “losing the capacity for social behavior.”? As safety obsessed Canadians, are we creating more problems on the road than necessary? It has been my long-held belief that when driving we are in community – the same community we live in. How we interact with one another in our everyday life is reflected on...
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