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Driving Lessons
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Can't see the point of pass plus anymore.
After passing your test you know absolutely everything about driving don't you?
Towards the end of his driving instructing days my dad was involved in an accident which demonstrates why this is not a useful comment.
Dad was actually doing a Pass Plus lesson to a new driver. The lesson was on rural roads with national speed limit (in urban areas these are usually not part of the test).
Looking over hedgerows he saw a car batting along. Knowing there was a blind corner and a hump back bridge coming up he advised the new driver of this car and told her to slow down and pull over to the left and be ready to drive onto the verge.
Sure enough this car came over the bridge at close to the speed limit, saw my dads car, paniced, hit the brakes, swerved and despite moving on to the verge she hit my dad's car.
Driver of the other car got out. She had passed her test three days before and she had just picked up the car. She had never been on a narrow rural road, she had barely driven at more than 40mph and had no idea how a car behaved at speed.
There were injuries so the police were called who booked her for careless driving.
She received a fine and points for the offence and as she was only third party she no longer had a car.
After this Pass Plus at £120 looks a bargain.0 -
After passing your test you know absolutely everything about driving don't you?
Towards the end of his driving instructing days my dad was involved in an accident which demonstrates why this is not a useful comment.
Dad was actually doing a Pass Plus lesson to a new driver. The lesson was on rural roads with national speed limit (in urban areas these are usually not part of the test).
Looking over hedgerows he saw a car batting along. Knowing there was a blind corner and a hump back bridge coming up he advised the new driver of this car and told her to slow down and pull over to the left and be ready to drive onto the verge.
Sure enough this car came over the bridge at close to the speed limit, saw my dads car, paniced, hit the brakes, swerved and despite moving on to the verge she hit my dad's car.
Driver of the other car got out. She had passed her test three days before and she had just picked up the car. She had never been on a narrow rural road, she had barely driven at more than 40mph and had no idea how a car behaved at speed.
There were injuries so the police were called who booked her for careless driving.
She received a fine and points for the offence and as she was only third party she no longer had a car.
After this Pass Plus at £120 looks a bargain.
How does an anecdote about having an accident while on a pass plus lesson prove it's a good thing?
Does (did) your dad never let his students get beyond 40mph on a driving lesson. That's not good instruction, I thought they should cover all types of driving apart from motorways?0 -
Because the newly qualified driver who crashed into my dad's newly qaulified driver was on a type of road she had never been on before and was driving too fast for it.
If she had done Pass Plus she would have received an hour driving on narrow rural roads and learnt some of the basics.
I was on the M1 last week and someone was doing 45mph in the outside lane causing a massive tailback - do you think they may benefit from Pass Plus?0 -
Because the newly qualified driver who crashed into my dad's newly qaulified driver was on a type of road she had never been on before and was driving too fast for it.
If she had done Pass Plus she would have received an hour driving on narrow rural roads and learnt some of the basics.
I was on the M1 last week and someone was doing 45mph in the outside lane causing a massive tailback - do you think they may benefit from Pass Plus?
I'm much more impressed you could tell they had just passed to be honest.0 -
that was what i was thinking! if you need that many lessons then your better off NOT driving
You might be surprised Beccci at how many lessons it does take you. It cost me over £3k to pass my test and I was really peed off that other people managed it easily but I couldn't get the hang of it. I hope you do it quickly but be prepared that it isn't that easy.If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you always got!0 -
The company I wanted to use now charges £22 per lesson. The second company charges £18. I'd budget at least £800 but i've no help so extra lessons with a friend/family member isn't doable.
who are the 18 a lesson people? lol and where?"The Lotus is a flower that rises from the mud. Thedeeper the mud, the more beautiful the lotus blooms"0 -
After passing your test you know absolutely everything about driving don't you?
Towards the end of his driving instructing days my dad was involved in an accident which demonstrates why this is not a useful comment.
Dad was actually doing a Pass Plus lesson to a new driver. The lesson was on rural roads with national speed limit (in urban areas these are usually not part of the test).
Looking over hedgerows he saw a car batting along. Knowing there was a blind corner and a hump back bridge coming up he advised the new driver of this car and told her to slow down and pull over to the left and be ready to drive onto the verge.
Sure enough this car came over the bridge at close to the speed limit, saw my dads car, paniced, hit the brakes, swerved and despite moving on to the verge she hit my dad's car.
Driver of the other car got out. She had passed her test three days before and she had just picked up the car. She had never been on a narrow rural road, she had barely driven at more than 40mph and had no idea how a car behaved at speed.
There were injuries so the police were called who booked her for careless driving.
She received a fine and points for the offence and as she was only third party she no longer had a car.
After this Pass Plus at £120 looks a bargain.
I agree, this story doesn't really prove that pass plus is a good thing"The Lotus is a flower that rises from the mud. Thedeeper the mud, the more beautiful the lotus blooms"0 -
who are the 18 a lesson people? lol and where?
Loads and loads around. Check your local classifieds. Or google. Here's one
http://passngo.net/Offers.html
£15 an hour."If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools"
Extract from "If" by Rudyard Kipling0 -
Never block book the first lessons though.
It's worth paying one at a time until you're sure the instructor is one that you like and get one will, otherwise you are stuck with them.0
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