{"id":7932,"date":"2012-01-31T12:25:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T12:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7932"},"modified":"2012-01-31T12:25:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T12:25:53","slug":"northern-ireland-black-box-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7932","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland Black Box Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Co-op\u00a0launched its \u201cblack box\u201d scheme<\/a> in the UK mainland almost a year ago. A week later, Scotland was confusing the issue with ifs and buts about its own teenage crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This story just came through<\/a> on the\u00a0news feeds. Northern Ireland is now considering black box \"Blacktechnology to try to curb its own problems. Apparently, insurance in NI can be up to 70% higher than in the UK \u2013 which I\u2019m sure is a meaningless statistic, since I doubt that this refers to the difference between the highest<\/strong> quotes in the UK and the lowest in NI (more likely, the lowest UK quote and the highest NI one).<\/p>\n

What gets me about all these \u201cinitiatives\u201d is that the stated target is to reduce insurance premiums<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What then happens is that once the insurance has been brought down, the little morons switch insurers (one without a black box requirement), and start driving like complete prats again.<\/p>\n

Just like Pass Plus \u2013 when it still brought insurance down \u2013 people were doing it ONLY to get the insurance benefits. After that, they just drove like they would have done without having done the course at all. You even had \u201cfit and proper\u201d instructors signing it off without doing the driving, and even now you see instructors (and recently passed drivers) boasting that they \u201cdidn\u2019t need to do much for Pass Plus because they\u2019d already done it on their driving lessons\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Pass Plus syllabus is quite clear: it is additional<\/strong> training. Driving lesson experience cannot be included on it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also strange that NI is only \u201cconsidering\u201d doing it \u2013 and a year after everyone else. And that\u2019s in spite of no legislation being needed to implement it.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t just the bad drivers who have got hold of the wrong end of the stick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Co-op\u00a0launched its \u201cblack box\u201d scheme in the UK mainland almost a year ago. A week later, Scotland was confusing the issue with ifs and buts about its own teenage crisis. This story just came through on the\u00a0news feeds. Northern Ireland is now considering black box technology to try to curb its own problems. Apparently, […]<\/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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t