This morning’s 125-mile motorway journey (M6, M42, M5, M4, M32) brought home to me just how poor the standard of driving is in this country.<\/p>\n
So few motorists seem to be aware that the Highway Code has been updated.<\/p>\n
So few motorists seem to be aware that driving standards have been improved (tightened).<\/p>\n
Nobody seems to understand braking and stopping distances.<\/p>\n
Nobody seems to comprehend that being too close to the vehicle in front puts themselves at risk.<\/p>\n
And nobody seems to be aware of just what the definition of ‘being too close’ is.<\/p>\n
Lane discipline, on the UK’s motorways, needs to be renamed to ‘lack of lane discipline’, to reflect the true state of affairs.<\/p>\n
It seems that the vast majority of people who drive on British roads do not know that the law now says that you should use the left-hand lane at all times, except when overtaking.<\/p>\n
If we had a government with its finger on the pulse of an everyday problem, it would change the law to allow motorists to pass lane-hoggers on any side (as is allowed in the US).<\/p>\n
If we had a government with its finger on the pulse of an everyday problem, it would introduce a compulsory motorway test.<\/p>\n
If we had a government with its finger on the pulse of an everyday problem, it would introduce compulsory retesting (to include motorway driving), every five years.<\/p>\n
But instead of any of these remedial actions being put in place, we have an escalating problem; the majority of road users have not read the Highway Code in 30 years.<\/p>\n
Or longer.<\/p>\n
Instead of any of these – painfully obvious – remedial actions being put in place, we have people avoiding accidents by virtue of anticipating, and being aware of, the stupidity of other road users.<\/p>\n
The standard of driving, as seen from the seat of my car this morning, was shocking.<\/p>\n
I had to take avoiding action six times, to dodge the unbelievably dangerous actions of morons.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s six times, this morning, I could have been involved in an accident, had I been less attentive to the idiotic intentions of people who, quite clearly, should not have been behind the wheels of cars, vans, lorries.<\/p>\n
Variable speed limits (the raising and lowering the speed limit as dictated from a central command centre) is not the answer to the question of how do we control the morons on the road.<\/p>\n
Yet that seems to be our government’s only response to the problem.<\/p>\n
Compulsory retesting is the answer.<\/p>\n
Because without compulsory retesting, the problem will never go away.<\/p>\n
The problem will only get worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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