Bedford Driving Lessons

Boredom is provoking as many as a third of drivers to take unnecessary risks at the wheel, a new study has found. Researchers at Newcastle University found that drivers who didn’t find the highways taxing enough were more prone to speeding or overtaking as they sought excitement. As a result the researchers suggest that making roads more complicated by building in more obstacles could actually make them safer. The study of 1,563 drivers published in Transportation Planning and Technology, highlights to planners that efforts to make roads safer could unintentionally provoke more accidents as people take risks to liven up their journey. Edmund King, President of the AA and Visiting Professor of Transport at Newcastle University said: “As cars come fitted with more gadgets to make driving easier and planners remove more of the distractions it comes as no surprise to me that some people are finding that driving has become a bore. With that comes an increase in the risks drivers take as they mentally switch-off instead of focussing on the road. Drivers need to stay alert at all times.”. More