Motorway training for learner drivers. Finally!

At last, learner drivers will be allowed on the motorway, hopefully reducing the number of idiot middle lane hoggers, tailgaters and brake tappers that ensure the road network doesn't function properly.
Due to be introduced next year, it will mean that new motorists will no longer face the ridiculous situation of confronting a motorway for the first time *after* passing the test, probably alone.
The common sense move, announced by transport minister Mike Penning, is aimed at reducing accident numbers.
However, a motorway section will not be included in the driving test, and nor will driving instructors be compelled to add motorways to their routes. That's because some learner drivers in the remotest places of the UK do not have easy access to one.
Still, it should at least make those that do far more confident once they've passed the test.
And for that reason, it should be effective in bringing down the number of motorway fatalities among young people: tragically, 82 under 21-year-olds were killed between 2006 and 2010.
The pragmatic shift addresses concerns that the driving test has little to do with real world driving. "Are we teaching young drivers to pass a test or are we giving them skills to enjoy life on the road," said Penning.
The move has been roundly welcomed, with an AA's Andrew Howard, for example, calling it "good news".
"It will end the ludicrous situation where people can live near a network of motorways and pass their test without ever having been on one, " he said.
And hopefully it will assist in raising a generation of drivers that actually understands how motorways work. Drivers, that is, who don't sit in the middle lane, or tailgate, or camp out in the outside lane because it's theirs to keep. There are seemingly sadly few of those drivers on the motorways at the moment.