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I'm sure most of us saw Britains Worst Driver. Well I thought is was rubbish and just mocking the inept instead of helping them drive better.

So what about having Britains Best Driver on prime time TV? Maybe run with road safety groups, the police and the DSA. You could have normal private drivers (bike and car), professional drivers, the police and dogooders all competing in catogories then going for the big prize of what ever.

I'd have a go, bring it on.

It's a cracking idea, but in today's climate you would be hard pressed to convince the ignorant majority ('educated' by the politically and revenue motivated) that the prize shouldn't automatically go to the person who complies with the speed limit.

You might think that the best driver is the one that drives the fastest without coming to grief. They have competitions for that already, formula 1, RAC Rally, touring car competitions etc...

Is the "best" the "safest" and the safest where and doing what?

Complying with the Road Traffic Act and the Highway Code should be a major part of forming the criteria for Britains Best Driver.

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Nope - they do not need to alter those tasks - driving around Etoile is a challenge for any driver

Reversing up a steep hill whilst someone hoses your cars - with coupla SMIDSYs - retain it.

Oh and the jeep around the swamp thing - keep that too.

Keep the road rage exercise in the multi storey, the towing exercise with the boat, the motorway drive on M25, the skid pan exercise and the little obstacle course around the scrap yard.

Those were not exercises which proved to me that these were "Britain's worst". Those were quite difficult challenges in real terms and think you can only compare so-called Worst with so-called Best if same challenges. We saw Quentin strut his stuff on the show - but this is edited TV - bet there were lot of out-takes all the way through!

I would bet that these drivers did improve anyway as result of attempting these challenges - I would certainly think very long and hard before I reversed my car up a steep hill in driving rain to parallel park... if it were not necessary

For Britain's Worst Driver surely they should have just gone onto the motorway with a video camera and filmed all the idiots who have absolutely no idea about the rules of the road? I'm pretty sure I'd look like an idiot if I attempted to do some of the things described there, at least without practice/instruction - I'm not going to tow a boat without first trying it with someone who knows what they're doing sat next to me, etc..

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Caught in the rush of the crowd, lost in a wall of sound..

Yeah, whatever.

In an ideal world safety should dictate what the road traffic laws are, not the other way around as we seem to have at the moment. Say what you like but there is a politically and fiscally motivated movement to disproportionately stress speed over all other issues when it comes to road safety. That became apparent to me when in 2003 Strathclyde Police replaced their annual drink drive crackdown over the festive period with an emphasis instead on "speeding" motorists.

It's a money spinner, and the new Strathclyde Safety Camera control centre building is a testament to that.

Yeah, I think it's a good idea, but I'm not sure whether it would make 'watchable' TV for your average couch spud. TV viewers seem to prefer watching people make complete balloons of themselves and sneer at those showing a high degree of skill at something they themselves think they are good at; particularly if it reveals a few bad habits on their part!

Well, if it was done on public roads obviously that would need to be a prerequisite as it is with IAM, and RoADA.

However, just like those qualifications you would also be looking for mechnical sympathy, making good progress within the speed limit where safe to do so, good positioning, smooth but fast cornering etc.

Also you could have a track section involving, I don't know, seeing how quickly you could drive a Suzuki Liana around a racing circuit...

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That's a relativist argument, and also elitist. What convinces you that you are not part of the ignorant majority?



Well, that makes up, let me see, hmm.. just about the entire population of the world. Driving is a political act,because the roads are shared. You can only drive apolitically when you are alone on a prvate road.




I'd win in that case, so I'm all in favour of that idea!

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Careful BW...


...you might come up against someone who is better at negogiating that tricky hill of yours, and they might not let you drive your Ford.


Kaz