It’s a piece of piss to drive “properly”. Apart from crossing hands on the steering wheel, (that can go in the bin 🙂 ), I reckon I could pass my test anytime
My wife’s previous employer used to make everyone go for a driving assessment with a driving school. Your score on your assessment determined 1. How long before your next assessment; 2. If you needed to complete some tedious online learning stuff - so there was a genuine motivation to do well. The distribution of scores made clear that not everyone could switch on driving properly when they want to. Her boss was essentially resiting his assessment every six months (my wife was the max three years) and had to redo the online learning every time. Obviously it wasn’t actually making him a “better” driver But my point is - some people do seem to struggle to drive “properly” even when being observed. We all learn bad habits and perhaps if it was only for 30 minutes every few years focussing on driving well might help remind us what we should be doing for the next 36 months…
that said I’m not actually that keen on retesting everyone all the time. I’d rather we put that effort into detecting the minor faults and finding ways to address drivers who don’t want to correct them.
Anyone else have the same experience and hold out hope for the future?
Seeing as I just followed a driving instructor about 500 yards and in that time he turned right out of a T-junction without indicating and took an exit off the following roundabout without indicating, then no 😊
