I added a video clip yesterday ('Monitoring Your Progress Of Learning To Drive') to my YouTube channel (“2010BIGTOM”)
which was emphasising the need to continue learning, don’t stop when you are
getting closer to Test. It’s a really
hard concept to ‘sell’ because we all naturally begin to unwind when we see the
finishing line up ahead. Athletes are
trained hard on the need to keep up the intensity to go THROUGH the finishing
line, not just UP TO the finishing line.
My Wife recently mentioned to me an incident that happened
at her Grammar School on the last day of term. A Teacher was horrified to see a bunch of young lads, using the
school car park to do wheel spins in figure of 8’s, handbrake turns and the
like. They got hauled in, and my Wife
was tearing them to shreds. However,
when she got to the point of raising the safety issues associated with that
behaviour, the courageous one of the group interrupted her saying, and I quote:
“No, that’s not right Miss, you see as we’ve all passed the Test, the Government have deemed us safe to drive on the roads.”
Now whatever you think about the rights and wrongs of the
statement, you have to say that in order to interrupt to make that point, he
must truly believe it. It gives a very
clear insight to the attitude of some about the standard of driving required post test – it will
have taken some guts to make that comment, and I would suggest that in order
for him to say it, he must have felt that he was on really solid ground.
And there we have just a little captured moment of the very
real problem with attitudes to learning to drive. How typical that attitude is..... no
idea. But it’s real, it happened, and I
would say it is a rare glimpse, of a truly heartfelt opinion and will go a long
way to explain why the insurance premiums for newly qualified drivers is
as high as it is.
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