JIM CLARK’S FIEFS Harder Tests, More Driver Education
“The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND, January 11. Not only should driving tests be harder, but there should be a more intensive approach to “driving . « l "“ t ‘»S lm S Chrlt champion racing driver, Jim Liar*.
He is a member of the Road Safety Advisory Council established last year by the British Government, and has forthright views to contribute. He said in Auckland recently that the existing driving test in Britain failed to go far, enough. It needed to be tougher in a practical way, and more thoroughly examine a driver for lane discipline and road sense.
Driving education could not begin too soon, said Mi - Clark. It would be a good thing if it could start in the schools. “The plain fact of the matter is that drivers are not so alert as they need to be," he said. “Like Zombies” “Driving is something that must occupy all the attention and not only part. Let’s face it, some people are driving like zombies.”
He envisaged the ideal test as one that fell between the present British test, and the far more rigorous examination taken voluntarily by would-be members of a society of advanced drivers.
In general, drivers did not make sufficient allowance for the other fellow’s mistakes, Mr Clark said.
The picture was not altogether bleak, however. He felt that within the last four
to five vears there had grown up a far greater awareness in England of the need for disciplined. intelligent driving. Rather than see the Courts get tougher with motorists, he would prefer a “courtesy cop’ system—policemen whose job it was to tell offending drivers just where they had gone wrong. “Everyone has felt on occasions like telling some other driver what he is doing wrong, but that sort of advice can only come from someone in uniform,” he said. New Zealand drivers? The world champion was cautious. “Generally speaking, I find the traffic here is slower, he said. “Drivers, perhaps, are more relaxed in their outlook.”
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30956, 12 January 1966, Page 12
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