Government's Driver Training

[Falchoon]

I hold in my hand a signed letter from the Minister of Roads Hon Carl Scully MP addressed to me.

Dated 9/11/2004

Stating that. Driver training can lead to a higher accident involvement through over confidence.

“a number of studies of “advanced and “defensive” driver training courses have found that such courses tend not to address the real underlying causes of crashes and can lead to higher accident involvement through over confidence and “optimism bias” (drivers thinking they are invincible)”

I will be posting the full reply from the minister on my web-page, but I will wait for the OK from Chris before I post the link.

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The real reason he is against it is because there is no revenue to be made of driver training courses.

Lots of young drivers think they are invincible anyway, if they learn the limits of themselves and their cars in a controlled environment rather in a suburban street how is this going to make them worse drivers?

[ExAreSix]

I agree with trumpy, if its free, kids that are "hoons" will go to the driver training and just have fun with the tyres, because since its not thier car and they cant get in trouble with it (because its driver training)

Yes, but it's a pass or fail course. If you fail, you don't get your license. You'll have to do it again.

I think that's incentive enough for the kids to take it seriously. Their license is on offer.

I do agree with Trumpy though. A contribution by the students is a good idea.

But the government should cover the majority of costs. Show that they are serious about driver training, and not revenue.

[Blown BA]

It's a good idea ......BUT that will encourage them to go out and take the driver training in a different way.