One of the problems with the issuing of licences is that people are taught to pass a test, not how to drive.
This has been the case as far as car tests go, but not motorcycles.
I got my motorbike licence about 20 years ago, when the test was just about the same as a car test with one or two little modifications. However, a mate of mine passed his bike test after months and months of intensive training which includes how to ride and ride safely – he was taken out in all weathers, all road conditions, at night and during the day, taught how to read the road, how to anticipate what other people are going to do, and how to apply the correct amount of control and restraint to many different situations. I was amazed!
Sadly, where the car test is concerned, this has largely remained unchanged in the same period, except for the addition of the theory test and elements of basic navigation and vehicle maintenance.
Until such time as learning to drive a vehicle of any sort becomes a much more intense and restrictive protest, we will continue to get lemmings hurling themselves into walls, ditches, innocent pedestrians and oncoming articulated lorries.
rudis_dad (via website).
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