Mark Foster
I think it is still taught at basic level, but is the corresponding correct behaviour learnt as a result? Evidence on the roads suggests not.
I don't know why they did away with it either.
snip but they are a bit verbose with full text.
And some buttume skills that do not exist in a new driver.
Actually I saw one of the oddest triangular temporary warning signs ever last week. It said across the middle of the standard sized triangle in letters no more than 1cm high "Tractors Turning". I have good eyesight and it was right at the limits of visibility for me. I suspect the farm insurers or safety group flog them, but they are not much cop!
And for the last three weeks there have been bogus properly annotated "grbutt cutting" warning signs all down our section of the A19 - which is pretty odd because the grbutt has NOT been cut.
Warning signage on major trunk roads these days is inconsistent and sometimes just plain wrong!
I am a bit disappointed the the rest of the thread is off on a tangent about the impracticality of requiring a motorway drive. Any fast D2AP with graded junctions would do for training-test purposes. I don't like the idea of learners on motorways until they have pbutted the basic test.
Improving the worst drivers would be very beneficial. But I suspect they are the least likely to change.
Arguably the existing test is not that far out - the problem is that after pbutting the test people lapse into bad habits.
But this is something we might be able to do that improves road safety for relatively little effort.
Normally they require cost benefit analysis to show a net positive outcome. I doubt that if it will given the huge resources needed.
I agree but I doubt that people would be willing to pay for it.
We have a lot more common ground than it might sometimes appear...
Regards, Martin Brown
