Bonus Short from Episode 107 - GDE Matrix: Elevating Driving Skills Through Self-awareness and Ongoing Education

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stewart: So the goals for driver

education, are basically a collection

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of, suggestions put forward by some

academics about 20 years ago, for elements

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which should be included in the GDE.

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in a driver education syllabus.

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So if you think about things like,

which the, the kind of general public

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are probably most aware of in driving,

they'll probably think of, you

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know, knowledge of the highway code.

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They'll think of, you know, their

ability to reverse park, bay park, turn

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on the road, all these kind of things.

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the goals for driver education

kind of lays these things out

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with knowledge and skills at the

bottom, bottom levels of the matrix.

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but then it goes on to expand on these

requirements higher up in the matrix

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And it talks about things like, you

know, the ability to self reflect.

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It talks about, knowledge and

understanding of risk increasing factors.

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And it continues to go all the way up to

discuss elements like, you know, your,

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your values as a person, your social

circles, your style of driving and what

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motivates you to drive in a certain way.

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Does

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that sound okay?

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kev: In a nutshell, great, brilliant.

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stewart: Okay.

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End of podcast.

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End of podcast.

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Yeah

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kev: the shortest podcast we've

So if he was thinking of someone

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that's a driver already, rather than

a learner driver, let's talk about

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someone that's passed their test.

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How does this relate to them and

what, how could they use this?

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Thanks.

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stewart: So if you, if you're

an experienced driver already,

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the chances are that you think,

You're a very good driver.

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And we know this.

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We know this because there's research

out there that, you know, if it asks a

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certain number of people in a survey to

rate themselves, whether they are below

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average or above average as a driver,

80 percent of people rate themselves as

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above average, which just does not work.

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It doesn't, that does not compute.

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so that kind of self confidence.

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sometimes referred to as, you

know, kind of superiority bias,

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a bias in your ability to, for

example, get yourself out trouble.

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If something happens on the road

ahead, I believe that you have

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extremely quick reaction times.

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That means that even if you are driving

faster than the speed limit, your, your

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skill level as a driver, your, your age,

perhaps means you have younger reactions.

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If you believe all this, then that's,

that's, that's, that could be an issue.

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Potentially that could be an issue

because bias, these kind of biases

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make us think we are better than we are

and they lead us to take more risks.

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So guess the first way that you could

think about the GDE matrix in terms of

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that way is to have a think about yourself

and be really honest with yourself.

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So in the goals for driver

education, there's a section

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that talks about self assessment.

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and that's about, you know,

really reflecting on, for

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example, if you have a near miss.

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We used to call these the whoa

moments, um, with our learner drivers.

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And everyone has had whoa moments at

some point in their driving career.

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And it's, you know, slight tangent, but as

a driving instructor, we used to explain

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these kind of things to learner drivers

in terms of if you go, if you're driving

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on a country road and you go around a

bend too fast and you have that, whoa, one

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of the major things that we'd be trying

to teach is, okay, what happened there?

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Let's have a think about what I

was doing going into that bend that

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caused me to have that whoa moment.

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And if a young driver has the skills

to reflect on that effectively,

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then they'll be less likely to

go into that bend too quickly.

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Again, they would, they would

get better, they would read the

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road better the next time, they

would slow down on the approach.

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Whereas if a young driver does not

have those skills of reflection,

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then chances are they will keep

going into bends too quickly.

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They will continue not to plan ahead

and eventually, worst case scenario,

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they are more likely to crash.

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To think about that the other way,

if a young driver goes round a bend

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too quickly, and ends up in a field,

or worse, the chances are they,

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that's not the first time they've

gone round a bend too quickly.

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It has happened previously.

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They've just not had those

skills of self assessment.

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So what does that mean

for an experienced driver?

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well, one of the issues with biases

is that, in terms of driving, that

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these serious collisions are very rare.

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So every time you go for a drive and

you're not involved in an accident,

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you're actually confirming your own bias.

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That you are a good driver and

that you are, you do have superior

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skills, even if you're not reflecting

on the, on, on the dodgy moments.

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so as an experienced driver, if you can

build on these self reflection things

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on, just be aware, aware of the fact

that, you're maybe not at the moment,

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the best judge of your own skill level.

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That even that in itself is

just a huge, can be a huge help.

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