On Feb 2, 8:42*am, harry wrote:
On Feb 2, 12:58*am, Ste wrote:





On Feb 1, 2:57*pm, "dennis@home" wrote:

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On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:56:31 -0800 (PST), Ste
wrote:

In the end, people like yourself hold drivers to impossibly high
standards simply because you don't like cars and want to drive them
off the roads, not because you have any legitimate safety (or
otherwise humanistic) agenda.

Why, I'll have you know Dennis is the UK's safest driver. He must be,
he's told us so many times.

Liar.
I have always stated the opposite, i.e. all drivers are idiots, I never
excluded anyone.

I'm afraid we can't proceed in life on the basis that everyone is
incompetent at everything, and therefore no one can be permitted to do
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I have passed my advanced driving test. And that is the first thing
you are told. *You assume everyone else is an idiot. *Every once in a
while it turns out to be true.
It's called defensive driving.http://www.ddtgroup.com/

I have passed my test in a large articulated vehicle (in which many of
the 'advanced' techniques of car driving are not just preferable but
necessary, requiring not just a higher standard of driving in terms of
my own vehicle, but additional guarding against, and compensation for,
the incompetence of other road users). Additionally, I am also an
experienced tanker driver of hazardous goods - and tanks have their
own particular (but certainly not unmanageable) problems.

At various times I have probably driven more miles in a month than you
drive in a year, on different types of roads all around the country.
For good measure, I also have a copy of Roadcraft on my bookshelf -
although it is a long time since I actually read it, because I
understand and implement its principles as a matter of routine.

I feel quite confident to say, that I have forgotten more about the
practice of driving, than you will ever know - and I was biding my
time for the right opportunity to point this out to you. I do not have
to assume everyone else on the road is an idiot - it is quite
glaringly obvious to me that many people are incompetent drivers,
every time I set out on the road.