Story time:
The first time I took my driving test, the evaluator said ‘pull out of your parking space’, which I did very precisely, stopping at the street where the test started.
Then he said ‘turn right at this street’, so I did – and made the semi-truck coming down that road lay on his horn a bounce a bit to avoid hitting me. I failed before we even started.
I was so focussed on his instructions that I lost all situational awareness.
I took more classes, then spent a few years as a delivery driver, so I actually learnt to be a very good driver. But my first test was abysmal.
I assume this is how most people that fail a driving test do it because of this. My driving instructor would try to tell me to turn against a forbidden sign, or tell me to drive forward when the light just turned red to completely kill the instinct to follow instructions without paying attention.
As for the examples in the screenshot, the one that shouted at the pedestrian sounds like a peach of a person. /s
That’s exactly what signals, rules, and road signs are: instructions without context. Driving on roads with 2-way stops I’ve almost hit vehicles multiple times. People pull up to the stop sign, come to a full stop, then proceed into the intersection, no matter what the situation is. I swear, so many drivers just turn off their brains to current conditions when driving…
Yeah, that one needs to learn to control their emotions.