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EclairReturns posted...

My mother will rarely do anything to help me whenever she's in the car with me. She'll just tell me that my driving is "okay" even though I know fully well that it is well below subpar. For example, one major indicator of the fact that I'm not ready to take my road test happened today. Basically, I was trying to change into the right lane; I looked in my mirror and did a head-check to confirm that the car on the right was letting me cut in front of him, but I still somehow managed to miss the red sports utility vehicle that zoomed straight across that opening from a driveway to the right of the lane I was trying to cut into, and into the lane I was just in. It really scared the crap out of me, and had my mother not told me to look out, it easily could have turned into an accident. I mean, who misses stuff like that? I don't know if it was due to my sleepiness or the sun putting too much glare in my eyes, but it still scares me how I was able to miss that car cutting through while I'm trying to change lanes.

This is commonly referred to as situational awareness, something which can improve with practice. Not just practicing driving, but other things like video games can help with this. Games that lean more towards action and real-time, specifically, because they tend to force you to remember your position and positions of other things within the game world while making timely decisions based on changing conditions.