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There are good or really excellent drivers, and really bad drivers. Between those extremes come the rest of us. I don't accept an argument that says those drivers nearer the top end of the scale are necessarily advanced drivers. The majority might be, but the concept that only 'advanced drivers' can reach high stds is illogical to say the least.
If those good drivers, without qualifications, were measured solely by advanced driving stds, that concept may be correct, but who is to say that those are the only criteria on which to judge them.
Surely their competence at driving safely in all sorts of conditions, and traffic situations, is a better yardstick than their compliance to some of the minutia that 'advanced' driving advocates?
I come back to my original argument. That what is taught to advanced drivers is not necessarily the only way for a driver to achieve a high std of safe, competent driving.
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The points you've mentioned about predicting, bends, sightlines etc etc, are to me fairly elementary. I learned about that sort of thing in my m-cycle days, (being a bit of a tearaway, or 'speed merchant' at that time) as did all of us in our little 'gang', so I don't consider it anything remarkable. I would have thaught most reasonably experienced motorists are at least as able as I to 'read the road'. If you say the average motorist can't, I do find that surprising.
I don't think we'll ever agree completely. Although I do agree that if the average motorist is only as competent as you suggest, taking advanced driving tuition is at least one way of improving road safety. Mike.
