Book Your Theory Test Today analyses the predictions of a road industry expert concerning what road safety milestones will be achieved over the next 50 years.
As the bid to improve safety on Britain’s roads gathers pace, one road industry expert anticipates a flood of road safety milestones that will be introduced over the next 50 years, Book Your Theory Test Today can reveal.
In a feature article published in ‘The Telegraph’, Head of Policy at IAM, Neil Gregg, delivered his verdict on what will emerge and what will be overlooked in the current crop of road safety improvement measures.
Book Your Theory Test Today takes particular interest in this topic because of the impact any potential changes could have on learner drivers, the structure of the UK theory test and the practical driving exam.
Book Your Theory Test Today can reveal Mr Gregg’s predictions for 2014, the next five years and beyond 2020.
In 2014, Mr Gregg predicts that every police station in Britain will have a ‘drugalyser’, equipment similar to a breathalyser that monitors the amount of alcohol a driver has consumed, except it will be used to monitor use of banned substances. Mr Gregg also believes that drug limits will be set for the first time.
Over the next five years, Gregg predicts graduated licensing for new UK motorists. Upon passing the theory test and practical driving exam, new drivers will face certain restrictions until they can prove that they are fully competent for receiving a full, unrestricted UK driving licence. Gregg anticipates that restrictions will include driving curfews and limits on the number of passengers a new driver can transit.
Mr Gregg also expects the hard shoulder on motorways to disappear as motorways increasingly switch to all-lane running in order to decrease congestion, increase road capacity and ultimately improve traffic flow.
Beyond 2020, Book Your Theory Test Today understands that Mr Gregg predicts the arrival of ‘futuristic’ technologies that will transform motoring. The emergence of driverless cars, ‘intelligent’ roads fitted with roadside sensors alerting drivers to hazards such as ice and bends and cars equipped with Intelligent Speed Adaptation technology, are just some of the transformations Gregg expects to see.
The introduction of Intelligent Speed Adaption technology would look to prevent motorists exceeding the local speed limit in a bid to reduce the number of urban road accidents by as much as 33%.
Interestingly, Mr Gregg also expects an ‘evolution’ of the UK theory test and practical driving exam in order to accommodate for new road safety measures.
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