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No 16 year old has practiced driving a car for 16 years.

They were practicing object recognition, movement tracking and prediction, self-localisation, visual odometry fused with porpiroception and the vestibular system, and movement controls for 16 years before they even sit behind a steering wheel though.

If you see gaining fine motor control, understanding pictographic language […] as a prerequisite to driving a car, then yes, all of them are

That's an exaggeration. Nobody is trained to read STOP signs for 16 years, a few months top. And Waymo doesn't need to coordinate a four-limbed, 20-digited, one-headed body to operate a car.

Well, I also think that there is a lot that we process 'in background' and learn on beforehand in order to learn how to drive and then drive. I think the most 'fair' would be to figure out absolute lowest age of kids that would allow them to perform well on streets behind steering wheel.

i am not making a point that it is, I am rather expanding on the possible perspective in which 16 years of training produce a human driver.

That being said, you don't really need training to understand a STOP sign by the time you are required to, its pretty damn clear, it being one of the simpler signs.

But you do get a lot of "cultural training" so to speak.

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