Learners on motorways

[andyBeaker]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44350285

Not convinced by this. There are plenty of three lane A roads that learners can use.

I would be more impressed if there was mandatory motorway training and testing after the driving test has been passed. I seem to recall my son doing an 'additional' voluntary driving test of some sort to reduce his insurance premiums after he passed his test? Also remember him saying that the instructor dosed off while on the motorway.

 

[Ajeman]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44350285

Not convinced by this. There are plenty of three lane A roads that learners can use.

I would be more impressed if there was mandatory motorway training and testing after the driving test has been passed. I seem to recall my son doing an 'additional' voluntary driving test of some sort to reduce his insurance premiums after he passed his test? Also remember him saying that the instructor dosed off while on the motorway.

The additional test is called "Pass Plus" I did it after I passed and it is aimed at the additional skills you need to learn once you have passed your test (As everyone knows your lessons are aimed at passing the test, not actually driving in the real world) The Pass plus is worth doing, especially with nervous drivers, and it includes motorway driving that you weren't allowed to do as a learner. I think it would have been better if they just changed the rules to say that you needed to do this before going on the motorway rather than putting learner drivers on the largest, busiest and perhaps the most dangerous roads in the country.

The Pass plus also covers driving at night (As at least one lesson needs to be at dusk/night) so that is also covered.

The motorcycle license is 2 practical parts so why not just change the car license to the same? Normal test as it is now and additional "Pass plus" test after that. All the framework is already in place so no need to re-write the test standards.

Regards,

Alex

 

[T.C]

I said it when it was first announced that what concerns me is that most driving instructors do not have a clue how to drive on a Motorway themselves and yet they are allowed to teac learners how to drive badly on a Motorway.

Had instructors who wished to teach Moyorway driving been required to take and pass a mandatory course, thenI might have been more supportive, but as it stands?............... It worries me.

The last 5 ADi's I have examined recently have all failed on their motorway driving and knowledge, and my brother in law is an ADi and he does not have a clue.

 

[Pow-Lo]

Driving instructors don't teach you how to drive, they teach you how to pass a test. You learn to drive when you're out there on your own. From what I've seen during my infrequent visits back home, most people these days have been taught to 'drive' by Stevie Wonder.

Lane discipline on motorways is particularly shocking. What really does my head in is these fuckwits who sit in the middle lane when lane 1 is empty. It used to be exclusively BMW and Audi drivers, who are all dickheads anyway, but it seems to me that many more folk have got in on the act.

And don't get me started on these East European steak and kidney lock openers that drift around in their sub-standard, left hand drive, shit mobiles that a blind man on a galloping horse could see aren't road legal.

 

[Minkey]

If drivers can't learn mirror signal manouver they can't be safe on a motor way

 

[andyBeaker]

If drivers can't learn mirror signal manouver they can't be safe on a motor way

I thought it was 'manoeuvre, signal, mirror'?

That explains a lot.