29-07-2014, 09:46 AM
(29-07-2014, 07:04 AM)Piggy Wrote: I ran motorway lessons and passplus for my students...but you cant force them. Once they have passed its unlikely they want to spend MORE on lessons.
However having motorways/dualcarriageways handy is an issue....for both arguments.
IE: you could pass your test/be trained and never have done over 50 or been on a road with more than a lane for each flow of traffic.
So jumping on the motorway is a HUGE jump. The different rules, signs, the slip road, higher speed and need for more acceleration, careful mirror use, 3 lanes or more plus hard shoulder, have traffic blast passed you at 100mph+.
Its a different ball game for those lads/lasses
Yeah totally, The actual scariest ones to drive on are the NSL 2 or 3 lane dual carriageways with proper slip roads as the lanes tend to be narrower, the slip roads tend to be shorter, there is no hard shoulder and they don't tend to run anywhere near as straight as motorways so you lose the longer distance visibility. I was lucky to have been taken on a few of these in my lessons but was told that on a NSL road I would still pass the test even if I didn't reach the speed limit or even get into 5th.