>> In the 1970s there were a lot of young driver deaths on Sweden's snow &
>> ice covered winter roads.
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>> Training was organized to improve the youngsters' driving on snow, ice etc etc
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>> This resulted in a dramatic increase in young driver deaths.
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>> Buoyed by the young drivers' new found confidence after a few hours training the youngsters
>> drove more recklessly than before the training with tragic results for many families.
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>> The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again!
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The same happened when I was a driving instructor. The powers that be one day decided that test candidates had to drive at the NSL "When safe to do so" where as previously someone doing 50 in a 60 limit was deemed to have maintained a reasonable speed. The problem was that new drivers were convinced they could handle a car at the speed limit despite their lack of experience in reading the road and the conditions. The number of former pupils (Almost all male) who had high speed write offs in the first few months of receiving a full licence became a test centre topic among instructors.
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