https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... ng-shakeupThe RAC director, Steve Gooding, and Neil Greig, policy director at the IAM RoadSmart charity, backed the proposal.
Gooding said: “The casualty statistics tell us that motorways are our safest roads, but they can feel anything but safe to a newly qualified driver heading down the slip road for the first time to join a fast-moving, often heavy, flow of traffic
How many learners learn in parts of the country where there's no motorways with in easy distance, but there are Dual Carriage ways which are so similar ,especially busy ones.
Greig said it was a “sensible and measured solution”, adding: “It makes no sense that new drivers learn by trial and, often fatal, error how to use our fastest and most important roads.”
So lets take the trial and error out ofit and introduce learners first to DC ,even ones with low speed limits to let them get accustomed to two lane roads and MORE IMPORTANTLY the etiquette/ need to keep left.
Reports had said the government was considering making learner drivers complete 120 hours of training before taking their tests, but the Department for Transport said there were no current plans for such a measure
So what happens to learners who live a fair distance from Motorways. Then of course ,how about bring in training before the test ( after it in the form of course) to teach those sitting in ivory towers in southern cities where they have Motorways/DC & decent width roads how to behave on narrow/single track roads and what passing places are for . Possibly even teach them how to reverse safely round a wide sweeping road to get to that layby they galloped past