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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Young driver training |
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 17:20
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| Every test should include some skid practice. I don’t know what they’re called but you know those extra wheels they stick on a car to simulate an icy road? A quick session of that could do the world of good at, hopefully, little extra cost for maybe a quick half hour session. Maybe not even in the ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Young driver training |
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 16:03
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| I agree with the difficulty and I am being somewhat of an idealist but in few other walks of life would a deadly weapon be left inthe hands of an incompetent person. Ideally, driving would be a privilege of the competent and the incompetent would make use of an excellent public transport system - bu... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Young driver training |
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 15:22
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| There is a German/British study which shows zero correlation between the 'goodness' of driver training and the subsequent crash record... Seeing that few drivers have had proper instruction on how to use motorways the majority cope amazingly well. Are these arguments for doing away with driver trai... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Young driver training |
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 15:18
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| She hasn’t had an accident in the ten years I’ve known her because, (and here’s the thing!), she knows what she’s like and drives within her limits at all times. I bet she's seen a few though :) How does she know what her limits are without going past them? You can lose control of a car at 20mph - ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Young driver training |
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:13
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| SafeSpeedv2, you seem to be missing my point. What I'm saying is that many drivers of all levels of experience and ability will, at some stage, lose control of their car unexpectedly. If it's happened to them before and someone taught them what to do then their chances of correcting the problem are ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Young driver training |
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Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 14:08
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| Also let's not forget (or become too 'scared') that our driving test has traitionally enabled people to learn at an appropriate pace suitable for their abilities and ensure that when they go onto the roads 'solo' they are fully safe and ready to take to the roads. It would be wrong to assume that p... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Young driver training |
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 13:27
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| Driving / Riding is a mixture of skills, knowledge, ability and judgment and the constant desire to improve and learn. Talking of riding, everyone should ride a bike at some stage in their life - that sense of vulnerability and the necessity to be aware of so many more things than you are in a car ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Young driver training |
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 15:31
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| :clap: Oh, a question if I may... Have you been telling/teaching them Speed Kills or to use an appropriate speed for the conditions? :welcome: We haven't got to serious speed yet, but when I'm driving I always tell my kids that it's safety first and speed second and to never drive beyond their capa... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Young driver training |
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 15:22
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| Hi there I saw on the news today that Lewis Hamilton has added his name to a young driver (14-16 year old) scheme in Surrey which brought back to me a thought that I had a while back. Using penalties and legislation (as is always their way), this moronic government have attempted to prevent young dr... |
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