just wanted to vent here nothing more....
Went to my second speed awareness course today ( first was over 3 years ago) sat through the whole thing being jolly and joined in with the group discussion where the instructor teased the the most obvious of answers to the most idiotic questions from us and then encouraged us along with positive reinforcements " good! , well done! pat on the head! "
anyway in the second half of the session my feeling about the course nose dived as we watched video footage of a car driving down a high street we were supposed to all shout out any dangers we had spotted and they came in thick and fast " car! turning! person! 40mph! car door!"
anyway the elevator music came on and thought jesus were not here because we dont know how to drive or the highway code etc how is this helping really?
at this point the instructor draws things to a close and asks if we all feel like we have learnt something today that will help us on our merry non speeding way.
everyone else is " oh yes i think this course should be done on a regular basis regardless of whether you have been caught speeding or not"
I piped up and said " not really"
inst "why is that then?"
me "well i have already done this course 3 years ago"
inst "well then you haven't learnt from the course and maybe this time you will"
me "in my opinion everybody here should already know everything you have told us today or we shouldn't be driving in the first place"
at this point i asked for a show of hands of the people who were doing this for the second time and it was pretty much half the group..
inst "well evidence shows that only 30% of people who attend the course goes on to re-offend "
at this point we agreed to disagree and carried on..
what a load of nonsense is my feeling about these courses, at least you avoid the points and the course is cheaper than the fine so.....
So, you don't learn from one speed awareness course, you've had to attend another as a result of further speeding, you've had to pay for it and you've been off the road for most of a day.
I'm not seeing the problem here
