Chris Harris's piece this week makes interesting reading on page 53.
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The android from North Wales may have been replaced as most senior copper by a far more reasonable man but I still have grave worries about the future of road policing.
The talk is still of punitive measures and other reactionary measures to deal with poor driving standards Yet no one wants to understand the causes, let alone acknowledge poor driving is recognised by the so-called safeety partnerships. They call it speeding in the misguided assumption that excess speed is the most prevalent form of poor driving.
Chris Harris goes on to say there are two factors which result in poor driving - one is a style of learning which soimply teaches kids how to pass a test and the other - a complete lack of pride!
He's been reading IG 
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Generally people take no pride in the way they drive and this is why the overall standard is so low.
I'd include cycling and riding bikes too 
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Education is bandied about by the pro-car lobbies and tha anti-speed cam bodies
Oi! It's about teaching PRIDE in doing the job well - 
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It's all very well telling people they need education but unless you make them receptive to the message - they'll ignore it.
Someone had better tell the Drone... especailly given his mainstream education policies... But it's like everything else - you have to get the message across in manner which planks will understand.
He goes on to say what we have already said - driving is a priivilege acquired by passing a test and not an automatic right and carries a load of repsonsibilities from legal paperwork of car ownership to behaviour on the roads.
IG, self and Wildy and rest of the Swiss on these boards have always said the test should include car basics and appreciation of a car. If you know what the car does and appreciate the technology - then helps build that sense of
pride and marvelling at this technologyQuote:
Imagine if every 17 year old cared as much about the smoothness of their steering inputs as their trainer brand
He also says enthusiasm is a crucial point - and but enthusiasm is frowned on by the militia of scammerati (per article
) - but he holds that kindling this is crucial to engendering this
pride in driving He reckons speed issue will subside if we steer toward good quality driving.
Um - we been saying this for ages with the COAST message
Finally he ends his piece with
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The car is a strange insular environment: an inherently selfish place where other people do not matter and likewise the effects of our driving then count for little. That will only change if we can encourage people to take a pride in their own performance
Still say he's been reading this site - Riggers, Gatsy, Observer, Paul - and most of us here and on PH have been saying this for months!
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