Young drivers can be taught lots of tactics and techniques to deal with countless difficult situation they’ll encounter
After nearly 50 years behind the wheel, it’s fair to say that I’ve learned much more from actually driving on our roads than I did from any instruction I received as a youth.
The graduated licensing system in this province was a huge and necessary improvement to the driving training regimen in the face of scores of fatal and life altering injury crashes which plagued our roads several years ago. Yet there’s still a knowledge vacuum. The wording of the law is still a little ambiguous about this in B.C. but the left lane is for passing, especially on a highway or freeway. I hear the arguments already: “I’m doing the speed limit, or more, and the behind me is up my tailpipe.” Let them go. For one, you’re not the hallway speed monitor. Ignorant aggressive driving will catch up to them eventually. Two, we’re safer if traffic keeps flowing while tension and aggression in others is softened.
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