Horse wrote:Strangely Brown wrote:If it's impossible to judge the speed of oncoming traffic, perhaps people should be banned from turning right, emerging from junctions, crossing the road, [add potential conflict situation here]
Have a search for the full paper, read it in context.
That context being:
paper wrote:Overtaking
Overtaking on single carriageways is incredibly risky and should be avoided. It is impossible to accurately judge the speed of approaching traffic, or the length of empty road in front of you, and when overtaking this can be fatal.
It is still a human using mk1 eyeball to judge how much and how quickly a remote object is growing in size. The same applies to the situations I and others have suggested.
Rather than just say it's hard so don't do it, maybe they would be better pushing for overtaking to be taught, properly, along with other aspects of rural road driving and include it on the test. AFAIK, nobody is taught
how to overtake at all, let alone safely.
I detest this culture of dumbing down and LCD, and I have no time for people that support or acquiesce to it.