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Motor Schools Association of Great Britain - driving instructors - marketing and new members special. Road safety, driver training and testing
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“Restricting drivers without<br />
intervening and helping them<br />
understand why their right to<br />
drive was being controlled,<br />
with no path to improve as<br />
drivers, seemed counter<br />
productive.”<br />
Exhibitors<br />
Kevin and<br />
Tracey Field of<br />
Confident<br />
Drivers chat to<br />
delegates<br />
others had called for restrictions, the police<br />
could not enforce the existing rules of the<br />
road now; could they do so in a future where<br />
there were more things to control?<br />
Other alternatives: linking a grade on<br />
L-test to future insurance premiums, to<br />
encourage learners to take more lessons and<br />
really aim high on the test.<br />
Another idea was for a 10-year licence to<br />
be renewed only after an assessment, with<br />
drivers being informed six months before the<br />
expiry to give them time to book in for an<br />
assessment drive with an instructor.<br />
Finally, one suggestion was for the New<br />
Drivers’ Act to be made tougher, and the<br />
number of penalty points required before a<br />
ban reduced to three – or even zero.<br />
With new drivers having recent experience<br />
of the challenges of obtaining, and passing,<br />
an L-test, perhaps that threat would be<br />
sufficient to make them more considerate<br />
and safer drivers.<br />
Graham Feest said the debate highlighted a<br />
lack of consensus on the issue: it’s clear that<br />
something needs doing, but what?<br />
He admitted that he had always been<br />
against graduated licences, for many of the<br />
reasons outlined above, but now he was<br />
sitting on the fence. He saw too many new<br />
drivers struggling with distractions, and with<br />
night-time driving, and was coming round to<br />
the belief that perhaps, something did need<br />
to be done along the lines suggested.<br />
But as he pointed out, restricting drivers<br />
without intervening and helping them<br />
understand why their right to drive was being<br />
controlled, and without offering them a path<br />
to improve as drivers, seemed counterproductive<br />
and unlikely to be popular.<br />
Above, the Disability Driving<br />
Instructors were on hand to run<br />
delegates through the support<br />
available for those looking to teach<br />
pupils with additional needs<br />
We were joined by the team from<br />
Driving Instructor Services who<br />
were delighted to chat to members<br />
about their call handling and diary<br />
management services, as well as<br />
pupil booking support services and<br />
intensive courses<br />
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