On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:47:39 GMT, "Bob Myers"
Mandated training is not taken to heart. You get the typical "yeah yeah let's get this over with" with the skills and knowledge sinking in just enough to pbutt the course and then immediately forgotten. They call it 'cramming' and it is the standard, for a lot a people, for pbutting courses.
You also get a situation where people are paying for training and to avoid losing cash customers the trainers relax the standards. Someone pays $200 you don't want to fail them by one point -- that's human nature. In my MSF clbutt of about 20 people everyone pbutted.
The Certificate from the MSF course waives the riding test at the DMV, after all, you just pbutted the training, right? About 6 hours clbuttroom and 12 hours on the parking lot with the testing immediately after the training -- before you have a chance to forget it. Basically you have shown that you can maneuver a motorcycle in a parking lot with zero distractions. Says nada of how you will do on the street.
months riding equates to a higher accident rate it is obvious (to me) that it takes about six months on the road practice to become somewhat competent. But not what I would call reasonably competent. Automobile insurance rates are, on average, what? Maybe $800-year? That means that the average driver is causing some $600-year damage in various accidents. That is not what I consider reasonable.
Unfortunately our society has made personal transportation the primary means of getting around in our daily tasks. To deny someone the right to use private transportation is to greatly handicap them, which Government is not willing to do.
Licenses, degrees, certificates... alll they prove is that you are willing to pay to be a part of the system.
Likewise, but probably for a different reason.
