Another Bill wrote:The harder bit is, when I talk to newly qualified young drivers who’ve spent a small fortune getting their licence, I now start harping on, why not a few £ more on IAM? A great time to do it, I say. But so far, without exception, has fallen on deaf ears.
What benefits can it offer for them? They have a newly-minted licence, what more do they need (or could they want)?
Another H war story, sorry
I used to run a post-test rider training centre based at a BMW dealership.
One Saturday morning, a youngish chap was in, just ordered a new bike. He'd just passed his L test.
The subject of extra training came up. "I've just done a five day course, what else is there to learn?"
Salesman grinned at me, gave me a key for a demo bike, we went off to the car park for half an hour. Came back, he booked a course.
So, unfortunately, in that case, he had to actually experience that there was far more to learn* before being convinced.
* And highlights a belief of mine, that any elements of post-test training that can be shown to be beneficial for safety should be made available to all via their L training. What I did (machine control) with the new rider was based on content I'd learned from US learner training, absent from UK training.