Driving standards

If, like me, you've spent decades "on the road" commuting to different places of work it can't have escaped your notice that driving standards in the UK have declined. Correction, nose dived. This weekend we've had snow, disruptive snow according to official classifications, but it need not be if only drivers had 2 things:-
1. Some driving skills
2. Patience behind the wheel.

Driving skills - these are not there simply because new drivers are taught how to pass the driving test, not how to control the car, and as soon as they pass the test they assume that they are experts and know it all when it is only the driving aids that keep them alive.

Patience behind the wheel - coupled with looking ahead and reading the roads / situation. With snow on the road many drivers were quite simply and very obviously out of their depth. No idea how to control their car, what it or they are capable of.

Ambitious and impatient beyond their skills the inevitable result is always an "accident". The best ones are those with wallets and egos way bigger than their abilities driving AMG Mercedes, BMW M-Sports and Audi RS cars - which quickly become immobile road blocks to us lesser mortals. Will anybody learn anything from this dose of winter? Or course not, why should they, they are insured and will only be slightly inconvenienced for their display of stupidity and ignorance.