KnifeMissile

Well, considering this one trip was the first and (so far) only time I have ever driven alone, your statement is not surprising.

I must say how much I did learn on this one trip, alone. I drove at high speed through rain, sleet, and snow. I drove through a busy highway (enough that traffic stopped), an empty highway, and every level of congestion in between. I drove around the busy city of Toronto without mishap. I've driven during the day and well into the night. I eventually learned how to refuel the damn thing (with the help of the gas station guy). Finally, I even had to dig myself out after getting stuck driving into a rental lot full of too much snow. After freeing myself, I made a ramp out of compressed snow and quickly drove into the lot, using the momentum of the car to make it to a parking spot so that I will have dropped the car off at the rental place, on time.

That was a busy day for me...

I think it is possible to go through your entire life without ever getting into any kind of (auto) accident and, while there are no guarantees in life, I plan to take a pro-active role in minimizing the number of accidents that happen to me (hopefully reducing them to zero). I hope I never grow complacent in this regard...

...of course, this is the attitude my driving school had instilled in me. Perhaps these are a pack of lies told to me by my faceless corporation of a driving school but I prefer to think that there's some merit in this attitude. This can even be a thread of its own...