Advanced Driving Hub

Quite a bit of time has passed since this all became 'live'. We were promised a full driver education publicity campaign. Has anyone seen anything? I'm still waiting to see some clarification of what they really meant with regard to letting pedestrians cross if waiting to in a side road and if/how ...

So what's so bad about the second overtake?

https://youtu.be/StSFfqR2QXw

And 'maintain' safety? If you increase your speed, what other changes are you making to balance the resulting reduction in safety (because of the effects on thinking and braking distance and reduced safety margins e.g. stopping distance around blind bends, the likely increased severity of a crash, ...

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crr003 wrote:Maybe this was how the retained guys got paid.

There was a retained guy near here who was a one man job creation scheme until he got caught.

How did he do that? Go round starting fires or putting cats up trees!

"Highly unlikely to have come from emphasis on making progress, positioning for bends and chasing the limit point, etc." How do other Observers/Tutors sell the benefits of those elements of Advanced Driving. One of my lines is that for you to be called Advanced, you have to demonstrate th...

"Highly unlikely to have come from emphasis on making progress, positioning for bends and chasing the limit point, etc." How do other Observers/Tutors sell the benefits of those elements of Advanced Driving. One of my lines is that for you to be called Advanced, you have to demonstrate th...

if there are potential safety benefits from advanced stuff, then they should be incorporated into L training, so everyone benefits. I think most learners have a limited capacity to absorb subtleties; they need to have internalised the basics first. While I think the first additional step should be ...

http://the-ride-info.blogspot.com/2008/09/where-theres-one.html?m=0 The 'opposite carriageway' is interesting. Certainly if you see the air ambo overhead you can reasonably expect that traffic in both directions will be halted. Trumpton seemed to send onto both carriageways just in case the locatio...

What is the pass rate for second tests? Are most that fail first time getting right with the next attempt? 48.4% of people taking their second test pass, and 46.1% of people on their third attempt get their licence. I must admit to being surprised that the first time rate is so low. (Disclaimer - O...

... And any other near-useless observation ljnks? 2. Ambulance. One hiviz in front - going to hospital; two hiviz in front - going to incident. Potentially multi-agency response, so either incident ahead, or other responders en-route? I mean one ambulance - double crewed. B&Ts - if both of them...