Learners on Motorways in 2018

[Cobra]

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Off on holiday?

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I'd rather prejudge and make allowances for the others though. Means fewer nasty surprises and I get to keep moving rather than get caught up in their mishaps.

And the hold ups it causes on the M25 even very early in the morning, particularly clockwise between 24-27 and beyond are totally ( well mostly) avoidable.

 

[sphexx]

I've always thought it would be good if people started on simulators so they could get the muscle memory for steering, clutch, brakes etc before venturing onto the road. Simulators would be ideal for motorway learning too.

 

[nilagin]

Off on holiday?

I have no idea where they came from. I certainly never typed them, that's for sure. They're probably fakes anyway.

 

[MartynK]

b****r!

Banjos ?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gNuj8UkyC4

 

[mikew]

Actually the police instructor on my "day with the police" told me to always do this to avoid the "idiots" coming onto the motorway
As for learners on the motorway, cant be a lot worse than a lot of the others already on there, maybe it will reduce the number of people who undertake the car in front as he's trying to get back to an inner lane rather than hog the middle lane having overtaken someone slower in the middle lane by moving to the outer lane whilst watching them undertake the middle lane.

You cant always listen to police drivers,I broke down in the rain on a motorway,the car was on the hard shoulder i was halfway up the embankment out of the way,the police arrived and suggested i got in the car out of rhe rain.

 

[onomatopoeia]

IMO it would make sense to couple this new idea with limiting newly qualified drivers to cars of no more than 1000cc/90bhp for the first two years too. That way they can learn to enter and exit a MW without doing 100mph while on there.

My first car was 1800cc and 85bhp (a Morris Marina), would that be allowed under your regime? Reason I ask is that when looking at older / end-of-life vehicles (I don't mean classics) which typically form that source of teenagers' first cars, there aren't many under 1000cc until the newer lower capacity forced induction petrol engines come in.

Were I determined to do so, I could build a 998cc Imp with 90bhp, with the correct choice of camshaft profile and gearing it should be capable of about 110mph (at 9000rpm in top gear).

 

[MatBin]

You cant always listen to police drivers,I broke down in the rain on a motorway,the car was on the hard shoulder i was halfway up the embankment out of the way,the police arrived and suggested i got in the car out of rhe rain.

Police or motorway patrol womble?
Matt

 

[mikew]

Police or motorway patrol womble?
Matt

Police, ok about 20 years ago but as far as I know the safety advice was the same then, get out the car and up the embankment.

 

[MatBin]

Police, ok about 20 years ago but as far as I know the safety advice was the same then, get out the car and up the embankment.

Think it still is, unless (of course) you run a greater risk to health due ti hypothermia I guess.
Matt

 

[Steve Smith]

Going to be a b****r if they make it compulsory - learners in Cornwall will need to get up to Exeter before there's any motorway!

And learners here on the Isle of Wight will need to take a boat trip!


Steve.

 

[Cobra]

You cant always listen to police drivers,I broke down in the rain on a motorway,

Actually that reminds me of something that happened to me around the same time, I broke down, in an artic, on the M1, "in the middle of the night"
The police pulled up to see if I was OK, I told them I couldn't raise anyone on the phone, till "Morning" they suggested I got my head down in the cab, till then!
I was only a couple of miles from the next junction, and suggested that they might like to take me off the motorway, so I could get a cab or hitch home ..
They declined,
After they had disappeared into the distance, I stuck my thumb out, and not long after another "night trunker" stopped and did just that