waremark wrote:I think the reason for not allowing learners on motorways is to protect other motorway traffic from hesitant driving by learners, rather than to protect learners from motorway traffic.
I think it is significant that the vision for motorways, when the rules were made, was very different from the reality today.
Speeds could legally be much higher while the capability of cars was lower.
Motorways seem to have been conceived as a kind of motoring utopia, and it's easy to see why they didn't want learners pootling along at 40mph and baulking other traffic.