defensive driving?

[GaLynxmo]

I always read about this here, in other car sites...pero what exactly is defensive driving? hinde ba defensive driving equats to being an aggressive driver? hence when we thought that we're just being defensive eh iba na ang dating sa ibang motorist...
enlighten me pls...

I'd say that defensive driving is not necessarily passive driving. You will have to be aggressive at times. Like you drive at the speed of prevailing traffic or enter a merging traffic at their speed. Accidents usually happen because of hesitation by some drivers. In a sense, defensive driving is driving so that other drivers can predict your distance, your speed, and your direction. And they can avoid you.
That is why, despite of defensive driving habits, accident happens because some drivers simply miscalculates, hesitates, and become unmindful of other vehicles.
But what our drivers need is plain and simple courtesy. Or that posturing that requires respect for other drivers and for the vehicle one drives. And not trying to outrun, outmaneuver, or outsmart the other driver. O walang patumanggang paggamit ng sasakyan. Or so I think.