Driver Awareness Training, Page 139 Reviews

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despite considering myself to be a safe, knowledgeable and experienced driver - this course still taught me more than a few new things and also busted a few common myths.

While this course covers some significant hazards for drivers on UK roads, none of the material provided any new knowledge. Any driver who has sat a driving theory test (i.e. sat their test in the past 25 years) will have been taught to a higher level to pass their test than the level of this course. Any driver who has been driving for longer than this will likely either have learned to a higher level than this course, or shall be so poor as to be repeatedly in collisions, or will have had their licence revoked as a result of their poor driving, necessitating a re-test including a theory test. The course was clearly a generic "one-size-doesn't-fit-anyone" course and was a total waste of time for myself, and I would anticipate also for my colleagues. A sizeable chunk was to explain the different types and purposes of road signs, with particular attention on temporary road signs, a waste of time to Road and Bridge Engineers who design signs and signing schemes on a regular basis. The general road user and driver training section of the course was to a very basic level and missed out substantial relevant information such as around reduced friction and increased stopping distances in poor weather. The section on the revisions to the Highway Code from Jan 2022 was also excessively over-simplistic, these revisions have been well publicised in local and national press including print, television and internet. While there remain a relatively high proportion of drivers who are still unaware of these changes, if they have refused to acknowledge these changes already, the brief mention of them in the midst of a dull, repetitive, otherwise generally irrelevant mandatory course such as this is not likely to embed this important information and it is likely they will either fail to notice it at all, or will forget it again almost immediately.

Very good

Was well set out and fun to do

Very well set out and easy to follow.

I don't think drivers will remember what COAST and FLOWER means. As an IAM member and former Observer Driver I can say that the content was very good.

Helped me remember some things I had forgot and clearly educated me on the changes to the Highway Code

as an ex LGV/PCV Driving Instructor I thought it covered the basics well with clear information.