TheInsanity1234 wrote:I think the problem is, the IAM can't support high-speed driving because then the Average Joe will be less inclined to look at the IAM if it comes across as a institute which appears to encourage high-speed driving, because AJ wouldn't want to be associated with a club of 'dangerous' drivers.
The only way the IAM can go is to condemn any flagrant breach of speed limits, because that's the way society is going now.
Not all of it - not this little bit of society!
It's not the only way the IAM can go. What they could say is something along the lines of:
"Advanced driving should include (but without being centred on) the ability to drive at high speed
and do it safely, but the existence of the NSL excludes that, unless one is prepared to disregard that element of the law. While accepting that the law should be complied with, we therefore regret the constraint that the NSL imposes on the development of a fuller range of driving skills. The interests of road safety are, in our judgement, best served by encouraging road users to acquire and maintain a wide range of driving skills, and developing the ability to use them wisely and with a suitable measure of restraint according to the varying circumstances they encounter."
In my opinion the IAM made a fundamental mistake when they meekly accepted the imposition of the NSL and the philosophy of restrictions, rather than drver education, and in so doing they have clearly been complicit in devaluing the entire driving process, and that failing shows no sign of being remedied. It's time they removed the "Advanced" part of their name.