Flexibase wrote: During my twenty two years at Hendon I travelled over a million instructional miles, all over the country, by day and night, in all weather conditions. Driving and instructing in a selection of motor cars
I have driven and trained at speeds of more than twice the National Speed Limit. Yet during that time I never had a collision, never caused one, never left the road, never had a lock up or even activated the ABS. I repeat; a million miles of safe, collision free driving, much of it, well above the National Speed Limit. I owe that achievement to Roadcraft and pull-push method of steering.
What I'm about to post could easily be read as critical; it's not. Try to keep that in mind
1. I wonder if '1 million miles' skews the accident figures for the rest of the fleet and staff?
2.
Driving at that standard is different from
training other drivers to that standard. I wonder how 'effective' other drivers were who'd been through the training regime at that time? Is Chris' level of achievement truly 'transferable'? [See '1'] If not, why not?
3. I don't think he totally owes it to Roadcraft; there are plenty of drivers and riders who 'know' Roadcraft but don't survive so well (and I'm presuming he had considerable operational driving experience before moving to the Peel Centre). There is something 'within' him that made a difference. Is
that 'transferable'?
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