Multi-Stage Novice Defensive Driver Training Program: It Creates overconfidence and increases crash

Multi-stage training programs have been promoted to transfer knowledge and skills to high-risk novice drivers. However, some have suggested there is a link between skill training and an increased crash probability due to overconfidence.A research from scientific researchpublishing concluded that there is a link between skill training and an increased crash probability due to overconfidence, but suggest that after the first year of driving experience, the training begins to pay dividends, with trained drivers performing better than their untrained peers. The article put forward some suggestions in reaction to this phenomenon:

We suggest that instruction designed to increase technical vehicle-handling skills in conjunction with modules focusing on hazard identification and risk perception may offset any effects of increased confidence in the trained group that this and past studies have found.

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(original: scientific research publishing)