{"id":5394,"date":"2011-03-17T00:38:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T00:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5394"},"modified":"2011-03-17T00:38:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T00:38:09","slug":"yet-another-statement-of-the-blindingly-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5394","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Statement of the Blindingly Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newsfeed just <span style=\"color: #800000\">threw this one up. &#8220;Threw up&#8221; is an appropriate term, I think, seeing as it is a combined insurance plug and publicity stunt.<\/p>\n<p>Only an hour or so ago I mentioned that the driving test has never been designed to turn out perfect drivers with built-in lifetime driving experience. It has always been intended to decide whether people are safe enough to go out and continue learning through their own experiences.<\/p>\n<p>IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists) &#8211; the driving equivalent of the Bowls Club Committee or the England Cricket Team Selectors &#8211; is spending a lot of it&#8217;s time stating the blindingly obvious, these days.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">Peter Rodger, chief driving examiner at the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM)&#8230; said people should consider their actions once the L-plates come off and work to keep learning &#8220;to help themselves improve further&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">He pointed out that those getting behind the wheel should look at the skill as &#8220;professional development and not assume that once they have passed the driving test that is all they need to do for the rest of their lives&#8221;. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can hear the collective sound of 55 million British citizens slapping their foreheads and going &#8220;ooooh, I never thought of that&#8221;. Or not, as the case may be.<\/p>\n<p>The driving test has <em>always <\/em>been a stepping stone to further improvement. By definition, driving on your own leads to increased experience.<\/p>\n<p>The last thing the average Neanderthal needs is advice on how to go round corners fast on the wrong side of the road,&#160;straightline roundabouts (which he can already do), or be told everything he vaguely remembers from his test is wrong anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newsfeed just threw this one up. &#8220;Threw up&#8221; is an appropriate term, I think, seeing as it is a combined insurance plug and publicity stunt. Only an hour or so ago I mentioned that the driving test has never been designed to turn out perfect drivers with built-in lifetime driving experience. It has always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}