Forty hours? Good grief.

I never had a paid-for lesson. My godfather took me round one of the
test routes in Sunderland the evening before my test, after the old
man had gone grey over the previous two days. Passed Tuesday morning,
aged 17 and four days.

I would have had an IN10 and LC20 on my provisional licence, had I had
it long enough. By the time my case for driving my first MKI Escort
while unaccompanied and without L plates, unlicensed and uninsured at
the age of 16 11/12 came to Court, I had a full licence. The young
copper warmed to my Dad who fed him cups of tea and forced Silk Cut on
him (made him cough) sufficiently to only throw the first two pages
rather than the full book at me.

 

Except it's South Africa now.

 

Teach her yourself. You can teach, you're a good communicator and
she'll pick it up... My Dad taught me, he's a natural teacher,
instructed trainee pilots, teaching me on driving was APOP... I passed
first time... Take her out 4 or 5 times a week, Laura will soon be up
to speed...

 

What's all this automatic shit? Laura can use the clutch competently,
accelerate, change gear, brake smoothly, reverse into spaces and do
three-point turns. She doesn't need an automatic.

IMO new drivers should be trained to manage the technology they are going to
use. Clutch and gearchange isn't hard to master when properly taught.

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platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative.”

 

My insurance renewal is due in a couple of weeks. The premium is £256. I
asked about putting Laura onto my insurance. £908.

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platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative.”

 

Used to be 5 hours every 13 months. I haven't been current for over ten
years.

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platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative.”

 

It was 40 hours because the CAA said it was. I've done all that spinning
shit, good it was, but I mostly padded out my hours doing circuits.

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platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative.”

 

Might have been an Air Cadets thing.

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platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative.”

 

http://www.dsa.gov.uk/Category.asp?cat=171

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platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative.”

 

eh? You think intelligence has anything whatsoever to do with
coordination of feet, hands etc. etc.

 

**** me!

Buy her a cheap shed to practice in and insure it TPO. When she passes, put
her onto PassPlus straight away and get the additional discount.

 

I can't be bothered to do this properly, need to get up at four am.

I think you're wrong but have no proof... well beyond the experience at
school that being good at sports such as cricket and football which
required coordination wasn't restricted to the higher sets.

 

Explain David Beckham's coordination then.

 

The above figures are certainly what I recall from 30 years ago. I've no
doubt there's a way round it, as Platy says. Fwiw, Istr something about
being able to solo earlier than that under some circumstances.

 

I think you're trying to draw a direct line between the adaptive ability
of the cerebrum and that of the cerebellum, and it's not going to stand
up to much analysis.

Completely different parts of the brain, see.

 

Champ says...

Some of the best drivers I know are not at all clever, and the worst I
know are mostly highly intelligent.

 

All things in good order m'boy, that's what I said.

 

<rubs hands>

 

I think, although I'm not in disagreement with your general principle,
that it may be fairer to say that even as intelligence could be
considered the ability to learn, and apply the knowledge thus learned,
there is no definite connection between that intelligence (as a purely
mental trait) and physical co-ordination.

In other words, a person may have the intellectual capacity of
Einstein and still be as clumsy as ****.

 

That's what I'm thinking atm.

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platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative.”