WhoseGeneration wrote:IAM should organise flat out track days for young drivers.
Then, on those days, include sessions with two way traffic, an imaginery centre line existing.
Great idea! Go for the skills circuit type events and follow it up with an Under 25s SfL plan or vice versa and I think there'd be interest. Even the Caravan Club of GB have organised events for anyone who wants to pit their skills against others who want to reverse between cones etc etc.
I'm sure that there's a benevolent will behind what's going on in the IAM and that inspires hope, at least for me it does.
Imagine being 20, your money is all but spent come the second Monday in the month and your car is due an MoT. You wanted to upgrade to those really nice bulbs, your engine hasn't been serviced in a while and your wipers need changing....and you're (still) fairly broke.
It's Summer so the wipers can wait, even though you suffer when it rains and the bulbs might not see much use, even though you'd feel great driving about with them at night, so you decide to buy engine oil, a filter or two, washer fluid and brake pads. That's going to cost at least a hundred pounds, so what do you do? You buy an IAM 'pre-MoT fluids, tyres, bulbs and paperwork etc check', call it
'an accessories check'. It's a 'way in' for the IAM to link with young drivers. That also buys you a discount on some of the stuff you'll need to get the car through the MoT from eg.Halfords,Kwik Fit etc.
It also gets you a discount on an IAM SfL course, which culminates in a track day skills event and reduced insurance. It's dangling a carrot in front of drivers who, for the most part, might only see people with sticks, looking for reasons.
It's good to dream as something might come from it.