Motorway madness!!
04 February 2005, 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by OllyK
But rather than promoting complacency, would we not be better to promote excellence such that the standards set for the IAM test become the norm?
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04 February 2005, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by RJMS
The government doesn't believe in promoting excellence - this might result in some people becoming dissolusioned (sp) because they can not achieve it. Far easier to set lower standards that everyone can reach - my wife works in education - this is most certainly the way that this is going and probably other areas as well.
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04 February 2005, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by OllyK
Now you're getting somewhere 
Paul Smith on the safespeed web site speaks a lot of sense and is very pro education and promotion of higher standards. He also makes the point that the Police driving school in Hendon used to actively promote the skills externally which influenced general standards of driving.
All this has stopped in the persuit of revenue generation and trying to further reduce the average speed in the UK such that it is slower than the days of horse and carriage. In the last 10 years it has achieved nothing, it's time to try something else or go back to the old ways that were working.
Paul Smith on the safespeed web site speaks a lot of sense and is very pro education and promotion of higher standards. He also makes the point that the Police driving school in Hendon used to actively promote the skills externally which influenced general standards of driving.
All this has stopped in the persuit of revenue generation and trying to further reduce the average speed in the UK such that it is slower than the days of horse and carriage. In the last 10 years it has achieved nothing, it's time to try something else or go back to the old ways that were working.
If I wasn't interested in cars I would probably take less notice of driving standards etc. so it's no surprise the average person doesn't adhere to the rules all the time is it? I know I'm far from perfect, but at least I know the basics. What worried me about this morning's epsiode was how I as someone who counts himself as a reasonably competent driver can end up in a situation like that.
I can't help, but feel that if there was a combined effort to continually educate drivers it would have a beneficial effect, but I still say there is a certain mentality among some people that no amount of education is going to be able to change. For instance no amount of education IMO would ever stop Mr. SUV/4x4 this morning from swerving towards me the way he did. He got back in front and that was all he cared about at the time and that mentality is ingrained in him for ever more I fear.
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04 February 2005, 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by tiggers
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For instance no amount of education IMO would ever stop Mr. SUV/4x4 this morning from swerving towards me the way he did. He got back in front and that was all he cared about at the time and that mentality is ingrained in him for ever more I fear.
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04 February 2005, 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by OllyK
We are back to accepting the lowest common denominator again though!! If 90% of people zip merged, you wouldn't have had to deal with dick head!
04 February 2005, 05:18 PM
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Exactly, if people would just merge in turn then there wouldn't be a queue in the left lane and an empty right lane with 'to$$ers' roaring up the outside. The queue in the left lane would be half as long, and people would get through the restriction quicker as there wouldn't be a continual stream of 'queue jumpers' trying to 'cut in' on the queue.
But that's far too hard for a lot of people to work out.
BTW, if someone tries to block you getting in, i've found they'll often back down rather than risk damaging their car. In that situation I tend to indicate then start moving across, not forgetting to give them a cheery wave to thank them for letting me in.
Not that they had any choice.
But that's far too hard for a lot of people to work out.
BTW, if someone tries to block you getting in, i've found they'll often back down rather than risk damaging their car. In that situation I tend to indicate then start moving across, not forgetting to give them a cheery wave to thank them for letting me in.
Not that they had any choice.
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