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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9819473" data-attributes="member: 23751">What you just told me was that driving those vehicles gave you a heightened vigilance to avoid things that don't really matter to cars, because they have the larger margin of error, but I doubt that's the message you wanted to convey.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Now maybe it's because I live in Los Angeles, where they have added multiple lanes to the freeways without actually widening the freeways, so the lanes are incredibly narrow.  There is no or little margin for error, especially when driving next to a semi, so I have that heightened vigilance you mention.  I'm aware of everything around me, since Los Angeles drivers are also very crappy drivers in general.  I drive expecting everyone around me to try and kill me with their vehicle. I'm also watching several cars out, because those folks can kill me by getting into an accident in front of me.  As I result, I'm really good at avoiding incidents to the point where I have had people in my car tell me that they are glad they weren't driving, because they would have gotten into the accident.All without ever having driven those large vehicles.</blockquote>