Stephen wrote:
Another classic excuse
eh, how many times have you heard it in this country, we get a bit of bad weather and people start running into the back or front of people, and what do we do blame the weather, even though we have had years of getting used to it.
Now, we had the same amount of years of congestion, the slow moving stop start that has been described, and what happens we run into the back of each other and what do we blame,the traffic.
It must be a sign of the times when we fu*k up who do we blame ourselves no, anything but ourselves, ah well never mind,lets put it down to experience,perhaps you should have got a car with a multi function steering wheel, that might have stopped you running up the arse of someone in your new motor
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Stephen
This really isn't good enough! We need to know much much more about why people make these mistakes and even more importantly why other people DON'T make such mistakes.
As for the blame and excuses thing, your position is part of the problem rather than part of the solution. In all other accident situations (air, marine, industrial) the objective of investigation is to prevent repeats rather than apportion blame. It's a great tragedy that we learn so little from road crashes because the investigation stops when a violation has been determined. The key here is 'root cause analysis' - just keep asking why...
- Why did he crash - because he was distracted...
- Why was he distracted - because he was in a new car...
- Why didn't he allow for the potential distraction associated with a new car? - because no one highlights the danger...
- Why didn't anyone highlight the danger? - because we don't perform the right sorts of analysis and reporting of road crashes...
See how we routinely miss the point?
As for the difficulty people have admitting responsibility, there are two main reasons:
- 1. The blame culture...
- 2. Because the true causes are usually subconscious, and subconscious causes appear to be outside our personal control. In a very real sense it isn't the responsibility of your conscious self. And anyway, we're not giving folk the right information about skills, attitudes and responsibilities.