dth wrote:Well, you and others on here may find the message simplistic and unsurprising but I can assure you that most of the many drivers I have dealt with over the years, haven't a clue about this stuff. There is a lot of other driving and safety related stuff that's not known or understood either that some on here just would not credit to the ordinary driver.
By many, I mean currently around 100 every week, sometimes more.
Perhaps we sit with drivers who are not that bad after all If divers are really that bad (and I do see some really good - or is that bad? - examples of their efforts) then should we perhaps question the process for educating and letting them loose on the road alone? In answer to jont (and I imagine in agreement with) I certainly do not think we should be dumbing down and dragging everyone to the lowest level. We should be lifting the lowest up.
Do you have an opportunity to educate these drivers that you encounter? Or are you sitting behind a desk/bench deciding (or perhaps in front of pleading for/against) their fate? And how are we bringing to these drivers all this stuff they are ignorant of?
How does education for driving trains/flying planes/sailing boats compare? And what standards do you think we should expect of drivers? As I have mentioned before there certainly seems to be a reluctant acceptance that drivers are so bad that we should just protect them from themselves. Perhaps we need a loud voice to counter that trend (the same intensity of BRAKE (sorry chaps(esses)) but in a slightly different direction)
Time now to offer your local MP for a drive in the country!!
Regards
Brian Haddon