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Each driver / rider learns at a different rate and to a different level.
We all have boundaries that we are 'comfortable within' but some people might either expect others to 'understand' or expect others to be similar. On the road we may often see another gesture another motorist for an action or inaction, but they have failed to appreciate that they didn't allow or anticipate the others actions that they are now unhappy about. They fail to appreciate the others position, or put another way are non-empathetic. I am not saying that you are making this assumption, just that it exists.
Bettering people's behaviour on the road, requires levels of psychology and education that shows how self worth and self interest can improve motoring habits. Through this motivation people improve.
Conversely, as with over enforcement for example, this can effect nearly every motorist in a very negative way, even making good careful motorists care 'less' and make less able motorists worse.
There is a little bit that touches on behaviour changes on a more general social scale :
here :
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/scienceresear ... health.rtfand
Here : Benefits of behavioural change
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roadsafety/speedmanagement/newdirectionsinspeedmanageme4802?page=4and driver Behaviour : here :
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roadsafety/speedmanagement/newdirectionsinspeedmanageme4802?page=8Quote:
The Manchester Driver Behaviour Questionnaire
Researchers at the Driver Behaviour Research Unit at the University of Manchester have developed, over time, a self completion questionnaire for drivers from which a three fold typology of aberrant driving behaviours have been identified. These are:
* lapses - absent minded behaviours with consequences for the perpetrator but pose no threat to other road users:
* errors - typically misjudgements and failures of observation that may be hazardous to others: and
* violations - deliberate contraventions of safe driving practices.
Accident liability was predicted by self reported tendency to commit violations but not by tendency to make errors and lapses (Parker et al 1995).
Sadly it fails to show that much about the actual survey !
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