When I was teaching my son how to drive a car, I told him the hardest thing for him to learn would be the relationship between the accelerator and the brake. Sure enough, after a couple of herky-jerky trips around the subdivision, he picked it up. But for those first couple of trips he was extremely frustrated. He thought it would be a lot easier than it was.
My oldest daughter, on the other hand, is still learning, even after a minor fender bender, that driving defensively is not driving slow, it’s driving in a way that gives you options.