{"id":9090,"date":"2019-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/most-south-aussies-are-way-worse-drivers-than-they-think\/"},"modified":"2019-07-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T00:00:00","slug":"most-south-aussies-are-way-worse-drivers-than-they-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/most-south-aussies-are-way-worse-drivers-than-they-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Most South Aussies Are Way Worse Drivers Than They Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Drivers are likely to overestimate their abilities when asked to rate themselves behind the wheel, according to Adelaide University.<\/h3>\n<p>The uni\u2019s Dr Lisa Wundersitz has told FIVEAA Breakfast:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf you ask someone to rate themselves as a driver &#8212; from 1 to 10, how good a driver are you? &#8212; most people would put themselves above 7, and probably closer to 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe split comes first with younger and older &#8212; it\u2019s actually younger people who tend to think they\u2019re better drivers, and particularly younger males\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile they think that they\u2019re a better driver\u2026 younger drivers are also known to underestimate the risks on the road. When you\u2019ve got that combination of thinking \u2018l\u2019ll be alright\u2019 and \u2018I\u2019ve got the skills to deal with it\u2019 when that\u2019s not actually the case, it can be a really dangerous combination.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/david-will\/davidandwillpodcast-15july2019\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers are likely to overestimate their abilities when asked to rate themselves behind the wheel, according to Adelaide University. The uni\u2019s Dr Lisa Wundersitz has told FIVEAA Breakfast: \u201cIf you ask someone to rate themselves as a driver &#8212; from 1 to 10, how good a driver are you? &#8212; most people would put themselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-9090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Most South Aussies Are Way Worse Drivers Than They Think - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/most-south-aussies-are-way-worse-drivers-than-they-think\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Most South Aussies Are Way Worse Drivers Than They Think\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Drivers are likely to overestimate their abilities when asked to rate themselves behind the wheel, according to Adelaide University. 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