Laura Craik is an avoidant driver – she won't tackle motorways, country lanes or many car parks despite being a qualified motorist – and she's not alone
Laura Craik is an avoidant driver – she won't tackle motorways, country lanes or many car parks despite being a qualified motorist – and she's not alone
Before you label me an incompetent, cack-handed muppet, allow me to do it for you. No, I am not proud. Yes, I am embarrassed. Like many people, I’m what you’d call an avoidant driver: someone who passed their test, but over the intervening years has become progressively less confident about their ability. Which means that not only do I try to avoid parallel parking, I also avoid motorways, large roundabouts, and country lanes..
According to Professor Sophie Scott CBE, director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, an anxious driving style can simply be an extension of an anxious personality. “One theory is that – like aggressive driving – anxious driving is a more extreme reaction to the generalShe agrees that motorways can feel particularly fraught.
The second confidence-sapper occurred in Edinburgh . Keen to show off my newfound ability to my mother, I decided to brave driving to a shopping centre on the outskirts of town. We got there easily enough, with me navigating several multi-lane, non traffic light-controlled roundabouts and a dual carriageway without killing myself, my passengers, or anyone else.
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