Silas quite correctly pointed out that speed is not in itself dangerous.
more rubbish. speeding, and breaking speed limits is dangerous, so is tailgating.steve shaw for god sake grow up, what is this rubbish about dick the crawler, i passed my test in 1968. I AM NOT SOMEONE WHO HAS JUST PASSED THEIR TEST so comments about how I drive [of which none of you have any idea] are not relevant
I was suggesting that a good way for a driver who has just passed their test to get experience on a motorway, was to drive between one set of junctions at 50 mph on the inside lane.
I do not see how the ABOVE constitutes dangerous driving, my objection to the plan and the topic of the thread , is based on the notion that this is something that is not necessary, I do not think that learner drivers gaining experience is a bad idea, but I am very sure , that the majority of motorway accidents are not caused by drivers that have just passed their test.
all of us were drivers who once had only just passed our test, there appears to be only one person on this thread [Bernard Cromarty] who has had an accident with a newly passed driver, the whole idea while harmless is going to do very little to reduce accidents on motorways.
the idiots on this thread are those that do not recognise that the majority of dangerous driving on motorways is caused, not by newly passed drivers, but by tailgaters, and lorry drivers pulling out to overtake other lorry drivers as described earlier, and people driving faster than the motorway speed limit.