Driving Schools - Get Up-to-Date

Memo to the 'drive wise' driving school of Milton: time to update your curriculum.

Or to give your instructor who was in a black Mazda 323 sedan with a young female student heading south on Highway 25 approaching Highway 401 at around 2:30 p.m. this past Sunday a whack upside the head.

Two things:

First, you should instruct all your students to always switch on their headlights, all the time - but especially on dark, drizzly days like this one, and in a black car, because the Daytime Running Lights do not turn on the taillights.

Second, you really should teach your students to obey perhaps the most important 'Rule of the Road' - Drive Right. The highway expands to two lanes each way once past James Snow Parkway. I gave your student plenty of time and room to move to the right lane, but she made no effort to do so. Yes, that dark gray Porsche 911 Targa that passed you on the right was me. Your students should know that passing on the right IS legal; BEING passed on the right means you are violating at least two provisions of Ontario's Highway Traffic Act.

It's never too early to teach new drivers good habits.

Comments

[Mark]

I totally agree with you about them not instructing their students to turn on their lights. I recall last year I pulled up beside a driving school car instructing a student at a red light. It was raining and I rolled my window down and asked the instructor in the passenger seat why he hadn't asked the student to turn on their lights. He gave me a blank stare at first and then said thank you and rolled up his window. As I pulled away once the light went green I noticed the lights were still not on (clearly in more ways than one, LOL).

[Driving schools Roehampton]

Nice Post! Thanks for this information, it will help the instructors and students too.

[Driving Schools Dublin]

Agree with above post. Following signals and instructions during driving are very important to keep safe yourself and to save from being injured. Many instructors in driving schools give the proper guidance about driving and tell them about all signs and symptoms of traffic.