Traditional high school driver education strives to change people’s personalities in hopes that such changes will increase road safety.  This is due to the heavy and prolonged involvement of psychologists in driver ed.

Some obvious questions spring to mind: Do these psychologists actually have any expertise in driving well or teaching good driving?  Why then would any person seek out a psychologist to teach him to drive?  Nobody would hire a psychologist to teach him skiing, or cooking, or blacksmithing, or bassoon playing, or knitting, or engineering, or religion, or economics, or law, or ….  Why then, would anyone allow psychologists so much influence on driver education?  Isn’t trying to change personalities far more complex, labor intensive, time consuming, costly, unreliable, and rejection prone in producing good driving than simply teaching good driving?

The defenders and practitioners of failed, traditional high school driver education and their psychologist advisors should get out of the business and leave it to the people with real expertise to teach driving and set up all related standards.