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PostPosted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:42 
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20511424

... or is it OK providing you have appropriate training. Hang on, didn't they prove that training makes you more prone to have an accident?

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 18:06 
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malcolmw wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20511424

... or is it OK providing you have appropriate training. Hang on, didn't they prove that training makes you more prone to have an accident?


Well, I've certainly benefitted from RoADA advanced driver training. Anyway, thanks for that. I found a useful link off the side of the article.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 18:44 
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The "Brake style" thinking is that higher level driver training, skid pan courses, track driving, speed awareness courses etc. lead you into a false sense of the level of your driving ability. Thus, you drive faster and are more likely to have a collision.

I don't need to tell you the flaws in this thinking but, apparently, insurance companies load the premiums of those who have attended SACs. Go figure...

Of course, they dare not state that training improves your skills as then members of the public who have advance training will ask to exceed limits also.

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I've never had any further training since my pre test tuition ( which by comparison to todays production line stuff ,and talking to a few newly passed driveres seems to be on a par with pass pluss) , apart from additional van training with GPO a few years after passing my test. Oh, and some crammed tuition by an uncle ,who would possibly have waltzed an IAM course. I have always kept an open mind on learning new techniques .Skid avoidance ( and as a last resort correction ) is one of my loves, and I'd suggest a skill worth learning to the point that the brain does not have to be engaged if a skid is encountered. To me , cornering lines are not a race/rally technique - this puts you in the path of most forward visibility when you need forward vision through a corner, and in a position with most road space should some hog decide to invade your part of the road . It also means the straightest line through a corner, meaning more available grip if evading action needed . But to me evasion is last resort - the aim is to see the danger/anticipate troiuble before it happens.

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