they say you only start REALLY learning to drive, once you have passed!
Pfft! You only REALLY start learning to drive, about 5 years after you’ve passed your test. 😉
The thought of a crash course terrifies me. It’s not passing your ITIL course, it’s people’s lives. In your hands. As a youngster, I’d have welcomed being forced to display a P badge, being forced to only drive low power cars for a set period, being forced to be re-tested after a year or so…
But no. Pass my test, drive any car I can afford to insure. And I had a 1275GT within a year of passing my test, and that thing could corner faster than a ford cosworth and after I’d messed with the engine, could outrun an XR3i.
Of course, nowadays the insurance companies ensure young drivers break the law by putting the premiums so high that it’s cheaper to drive without insurance and take the hit (sic) when you do have an accident. They could have worked to manage the risk to make the world a safer place but because all insurance companies are in league with satan, they took the FU path. Ho hum.
What a strange world we live in.