Advanced Driving Hub

Well hello! Or should that be 'weeee-whoooo-weeeee'?

Small point of order...it's Bristol Advanced Motorists...'IAMs' sound like something the cat eats.

Make space for a driving day or 2 - you'll love it.

Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:I think you'll all find he already knows about it ...

Ahh OK - don't recognise the moniker but good!

Hi Steve and welcome. Can't recommend the driving days enough...if you're at all tempted, go for it.

waremark wrote:If that is film rather than simulation it is quite remarkable. Is it?

My guess would be it's some heavy editing/cgi as the margins look much too close and the sheer number of vehicles/drivers involved make it seem unlikely it's real.

Dunno...difficult to truly judge without being there but probably not. I'm pretty conservative in overtaking and I have an aversion to moving off-side when a right-hand bend is coming up next.

Got any more, suitable vid clips?

I was talking to one of our very experienced examiners recently and he has decided not to do any more 'Mature Drivers Assessments'. This is a one-off, no-test assessment offered by the IAM and only done by examiners. Reason? He's had too many near misses and one collision while 'assessing'. Without ...

Michael: Interesting points. Can you tell me more about the money Brake gets from the MoJ - is this 'victim support' grants? The potential lobbying 'tax subsidy' via Gift aid is not something I can personally get excited about...it's a small proportion of a small proportion - charities, by definitio...

Fair changes, gov. funds are not given for lobbying... Nor should charitable donations be. And what does gift aid count as? I agree government money *shouldn't be used for lobbying government but why shouldn't donations from the public? If I support a charity's aims, then I would expect it to promo...

So do people here think there should be a nationwide Road Accident Investigation Branch (like the Aviation: AAIB and Marine: MAIB) that would formally investigate all serious collisions, apportion blame and hand the details to the CPS as well as suggesting improvements in car design, road engineerin...