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"Paul Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>> How did you first learn [you go where you look]?
>>Riding a bicycle, of course! It is an inescapable conclusion.
> Does that translate to a car in an emergency? Have you ever been unlucky enough to try it out?
Unlucky? UNLUCKY? Cheek! It's pure skill that keeps me out of danger
As a learned response it seems to be pretty transferrable. I am told that the mums in their 4x4s who
drive along the middle of the road up to Kidmore End stare fixedly at my car while they are failing
to slow down or move over, whereas I am always looking at the eascape route and braking so I never
see this. I've not been in a situation where I've been called on to use it to save my life, other
than on a bike.
> Did you have a reason for picking environment based examples?
Yes. Behaviour-based messages, at least to start with, are likely to be dismissed as being for the
average-skill driver, and as you know I am firmly of the opinion that most drivers overestimate
their own skill. Certainly they mostly believe they are of above average skill. If the information
is presented in a blame-neutral way, focussing on an environmental factor, they are more likely (in
my view) to accept its relevance to them. Same information, same target, different hook.
A really effective campaign would probably use both methods, and others I haven't thought of.
And would get people like Stirling Moss, Nigel Mansell, Paul Ripley and even the dreaded
Cl*rks*n on board.
All middle-aged you note. It's people aged 30+ for whom the driving test and the Highway Code are
but a dim memory who I think wuoold benefit from this kind of education. Boy racers are a separate
problem and need a different approach. Maybe we could bribe the ladies to keep their knickers on
until the boys have proved they can drive within the law for a month?
--
Guy
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I wonder if you wouldn't mind piecing out our imperfections with your thoughts; and while you're
about it perhaps you could think when we talk of bicycles, that you see them printing their proud
wheels i' the receiving earth; thanks awfully.
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.shtml#103 http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.shtml#104
news:[email protected]...
>>> How did you first learn [you go where you look]?
>>Riding a bicycle, of course! It is an inescapable conclusion.
> Does that translate to a car in an emergency? Have you ever been unlucky enough to try it out?
Unlucky? UNLUCKY? Cheek! It's pure skill that keeps me out of danger
As a learned response it seems to be pretty transferrable. I am told that the mums in their 4x4s who
drive along the middle of the road up to Kidmore End stare fixedly at my car while they are failing
to slow down or move over, whereas I am always looking at the eascape route and braking so I never
see this. I've not been in a situation where I've been called on to use it to save my life, other
than on a bike.
> Did you have a reason for picking environment based examples?
Yes. Behaviour-based messages, at least to start with, are likely to be dismissed as being for the
average-skill driver, and as you know I am firmly of the opinion that most drivers overestimate
their own skill. Certainly they mostly believe they are of above average skill. If the information
is presented in a blame-neutral way, focussing on an environmental factor, they are more likely (in
my view) to accept its relevance to them. Same information, same target, different hook.
A really effective campaign would probably use both methods, and others I haven't thought of.
And would get people like Stirling Moss, Nigel Mansell, Paul Ripley and even the dreaded
Cl*rks*n on board.
All middle-aged you note. It's people aged 30+ for whom the driving test and the Highway Code are
but a dim memory who I think wuoold benefit from this kind of education. Boy racers are a separate
problem and need a different approach. Maybe we could bribe the ladies to keep their knickers on
until the boys have proved they can drive within the law for a month?
--
Guy
===
I wonder if you wouldn't mind piecing out our imperfections with your thoughts; and while you're
about it perhaps you could think when we talk of bicycles, that you see them printing their proud
wheels i' the receiving earth; thanks awfully.
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.shtml#103 http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.shtml#104