Up the age??

3146bj

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The authorities have all the statistics they need,what they lack is someone with the bottle to attack the real problem,
teach people how to drive,not how to pass a test.

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Nick.[/QUOTE]

Have to agree. Teach people to drive not how to pass a test. When I was young and stupid (as distinct from being old and stupid now). I thought I could drive pretty well when I got my licence - I'd been driving trucks and tractors on a farm since I was 8 years old. Then I wanted to race cars on the track so I did the basic Confederation of Australian Motor Sport driver training course. What an eye opener that was!

10 years later, I had to do a defensive driving course before I could drive Company cars. Why should I do that? Hadn't I raced and rallied cars and wasn't I an expert driver? Again, what an eye opener! Each refresher course over the next 15 years (3 yearly) brought more surprises and more awareness of the idiotic things I'd done in the past and how lucky I'd been to survive.

A drivers licence lets you legally get behind the wheel, but you still know nothing about driving a car safely. Admit that and you are halfway there.
 
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The reason I have reached old fart status is because I anticipate the stupidity of others, and make way for them. I think I have had a good journey when I can recite the 4 or 5 instances where, if I had not taken evasive action, drivers who did not even know I was there or realize the problem, would have collided with me. If I was more Teutonic and insisted on holding my right of way regardless, I would have been dead years ago.

I agree totally Alex.

Having ridden motorbikes in my younger days as my only form of transport for 10 years; I found out the hard way that the only way to stay alive, was to develop a defensive style of riding and make the assumption that everyone else on the road had a pathological desire to see me dead and act accordingly.

I still have this awareness, which I know has helped me take avoiding action at the first signs of imminent danger on several occasions.
 


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