A thought I noticed on rereading this: if most Americans have a deep mastery of driving, and having a deep mastery of something requires patient and direct observation, is this also a claim that most Americans have already engaged in patient and direct observation of driving?
(I can’t decide if I’d agree such a claim is true. Certainly most Americans have not done the particular slow-down-and-look moves of naturalism-as-described-by-Logan. But drivers certainly have spent many hours practicing driving and seeing what happens when they do x or y, and iterating accordingly; I’m not sure if that’s close-enough-to-the-same-thing.)
A thought I noticed on rereading this: if most Americans have a deep mastery of driving, and having a deep mastery of something requires patient and direct observation, is this also a claim that most Americans have already engaged in patient and direct observation of driving?
(I can’t decide if I’d agree such a claim is true. Certainly most Americans have not done the particular slow-down-and-look moves of naturalism-as-described-by-Logan. But drivers certainly have spent many hours practicing driving and seeing what happens when they do x or y, and iterating accordingly; I’m not sure if that’s close-enough-to-the-same-thing.)