The November issue of Despatch is now available. Click the logo to view it.
Articles include the recent document outlining new standards for driver and rider trainers, a story about the modernisation of drink-drive rehab courses, information about modernising driver training (which should go into consultation next year – and it includes getting rid of the current trainee/pink licence system), some nonsense (I’m sorry, but it is*) about the psychology of driving, a story about the BBC’s CBBC road safety campaign, and some bits and pieces at the end.
Interestingly, the bits and pieces section includes this:
Rules for cars used for driving tests
Following enquiries from instructors, DSA has confirmed there are no plans to change the rules governing which cars can be used on driving tests. DSA encourages instructors to accompany their pupils on test, and recommends cars presented for test have four doors, but there are no plans to make this a legal requirement.
Hopefully, that will put paid to the epic saga on several forums, where they’re all working themselves up into a frenzy over something which was never going to happen in the first place.
* the article in question says that psychology is important in the study of road safety. It may well be, but it is sod all use when teaching people to drive – unless you’re going to force them to take lessons over several years. It’s just pseudo-scientists trying to big themselves up again.