Are driving standards getting worse in the UK? #136
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel discuss lane discipline, awareness on the road, consideration of road users and many other things that appear to be slipping on our highways. They also talk about the one thing drivers can do that's guaranteed to make them better.
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| 0:20.0 | the care in the world as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there. |
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| 0:25.0 | Avanti West Coast feel good travel. Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | The Intercooler Podcast. a podcast. |
| 0:51.3 | Welcome to episode 136 of the podcast everybody with me, Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel. Now this episode of the podcast turned into a bit of a ranty one. |
| 0:55.6 | I don't think we planned it that way but it did because we're talking about driving |
| 0:59.4 | etiquette, driving standards, lane discipline on the motorway, all that sort of stuff, you know, the things that wind us up on the road. |
| 1:07.0 | But I suspect it's the kind of episode that will resonate with a lot of you. |
| 1:11.0 | So we'll get straight into it it let us know what you think. |
| 1:14.0 | Do you think generally that driving standards have become worse over recent years? |
| 1:20.4 | Yeah, yeah I do. Not dramatically so, but you know I'm very old and I've been, you know, I've been cheesed off with the behavior of other road users for 40 bloody years. Blime I've only just realized... |
| 1:34.0 | As long as I've been a road user, I suppose. |
| 1:36.0 | As long as I've been a road user, yeah. |
| 1:38.0 | But have they got worse? I think my perception of them has got worse, but's what that's probably what happens when you |
| 1:43.5 | get to sort of advance middle age and you turn into a sort of commudingly old scrot and you know these things |
| 1:50.8 | just matter more to you because I suspect also 40 years ago I was probably |
| 1:54.0 | the one causing most of the problems rather than observing them and getting teased off by them. |
| 1:58.0 | But my perception is that they are getting worse. The only thing that tends to... I'll say two things. |
| 2:07.0 | Well firstly is that they got a lot worse when COVID hit because the roads were much less busy and there's nothing which is |
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