Driver Awareness Training, Page 4 Reviews

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.

Many junior CGL staff have not long passed tests and we ask them to drive small vans. Far better to provide something less mind numbingly general for all and focus on actual need. Also the stats at the beginning are sensationalist nonsense. The reason the risk that car driving could be conceivably equated to coal mining risk is that there has not been a death in mining for 3 decades (see UK Gov figures) and there is hardly any deep coal extraction operating in UK. Also UK has one of the lowest death rates for road accidents per head of population than anywhere on planet.....so the sensationalist intro immediately antagonises. The comment about drinking at lunchtime to an organisation that has staff on random drug and alcohol testing and drinking at lunchtime and attending site is a dismissible offence suggests a lack of appropriateness once again.

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I have held a full UK driving licence for more than 20 years. I have 0 endorsements on my licence and do not have regular accidents. I did however learn that it is not illegal to eat whilst driving and I can do it whilst wearing headphones and wearing flip flops.

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Takes far to long to watch the content. Should be able to take the test and then learn about areas you need to improve after rather than having to watch everything.

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Don't drink and Drive. Wear a Seatbelt.....thanks for that. Honestly.

Pointless course I learnt nothing

Didn’t recap or teach anything at all