Results taken from a video made of one Dutch driver by NLRmedia, measuring pupil response as a driver entered a tunnel then emerged again into bright daylight.
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The BBC recently highlighted some disturbingly high risks among young men, using one fatal case study and interviews with the survivors. England currently has no road safety strategy. Thrill-seeking and the effect of social media posting (especially while in a car) is under-researched. There’s no political will to address this societal blind spot.
Graduated Driver Licensing, in other countries, has reduced road deaths (most of which are young men) by 20-40%. But UK governments have bigger issues to tackle for the immediate future. :( In 1960, a major British toy manufacturer launched the Austin A60 driving school car. It sold VERY well for many years. I use one to aid my teaching. Its success lay in the twin facts that (1) a child could control the steering, adding appreciable play value, and (2) the toy came with a set of traffic cones and instructions, so the girl/boy could learn how to reverse around corners or into a small space.
Fans have recently bought the manufacturing rights to sell remakes. Could having your own, for the price of one real driving lesson, help you too? I’ve sometimes recommended that, between lessons, a student drives at low speed (under 10mph) on vacant privately-owned land, as long as they have a qualified driver with them. The law allows them to do this without insurance cover, though I make them aware that any damage they cause to fences, signs, kerbs (or anyone else that gets close) will be their responsibility, and the landowner (such as a supermarket) may tell them to leave.
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