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> This is a great development, considering the recklessness of many young drivers and their relatively high accident rates A lot of people think that if obtain
by zalew 14y ago
> This is a great development, considering the recklessness of many young drivers and their relatively high accident rates
A lot of people think that if obtaining a license is harder, the roads will be safer, but it's more an urban wisdom than science. If you take various numbers from around the world, you will notice there is no linear correlation between those two, especially when harder is pay more than you should and sit in class harder, instead of learn how to run a special stage on snow and ice harder. Also, in places where driving is a privilege, drivers tend to feel privileged. The sad truth is just that almost everywhere driving training simply sucks, with the well-known exception of Finland.
- jacalata 14y agoI've never heard anything about Finnish driver training - if I were naming a well known exception it would be Germany.
- zalew 14y agoA short presentation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnYGhAXbDsM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnYGhAXbDsM I'm pretty sure there are better films about Finnish courses somewhere. I've heard Austria also cares about training for winter conditions.
- abenga 14y agoThere was also an interesting Top Gear segment where Mika Hakkinen gave James May a racing lesson[1]. In it they talked about why Finns seem to do so much better than people from other countries in motor racing. A bit of it was to do with their driver training. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bmqdnx5R1U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bmqdnx5R1U