Drivers are at their most dangerous and are in greatest danger during the period they first begin to drive alone. In most cases this period of high accident involvement follows the only formal training drivers receive. This does not mean that training makes drivers dangerous, since clearly a variety of factors underlie the accidents of young / inexperienced drivers, as they do all other categories of road accident. The comparative lack of influence psychology, particularly cognitive psychology, has had on driver training thus far may be one of the factors behind this lack of success.
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