As lives gradually resume to some semblance of normalcy, more and more people are hitting the roads once again. However, after spending months in lockdown, a survey has shown that a large number of motorists in the UK are having difficulty to get used to driving. This is something we can all relate to, can’t we?
The UK’s transport ministry revealed that the average UK car is driven more than 11,000 km every year, or an average of 938 km monthly. However, over the past 28 days, Hyundai’s survey (with a sample size of 2,000 motorists) showed that the average driver only covered less than 150 km a month, and 30% of those respondents drove less than 40 km.
More interestingly, 18% of them (or 360 people) said they struggled to get accustomed to driving once again. Of the 360 individuals, 28% have stalled their cars, 21% had scraped their wheels on kerbs, and 21% forgot to use the signal indicator. Four out of 10 motorists said they hadn’t refuelled in the past 28 days, while 12% admitted to not remember which side of car the fuel lid or charging port was at.
Out of the 2,000 individuals, 48% said they were more concerned about the potentially poorer standard of driving post-lockdown, and 44% of them thought motorists have been driving faster during lockdown. Just 10% thought they have been driving more slowly.
Police forces across the UK have voiced out about shocking driving behaviours during the lockdown. A separate study done by Hyundai found that 18% of its respondents have had a near-miss with a cyclist, either as a driver or pedestrian.
Finally, the top 10 errors made by UK drivers since the lockdown were stalling, struggled with parallel parking, forgot to use the turn indicators, scraping wheels on kerbs, not checking mirrors when driving off, forgot where the fuel filler cap was, not shutting the door properly, and not putting their seatbelts on. Completing the list are those who had to think carefully about what each pedal does and forgetting to turn the ignition key. We’re not making this up!
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Naw. Not as lejen like our Perodua drivers forgetting to turn on headlamps in pitch black because their dashboard meter panel is too bright and couldn’t indicate headlamp wasn’t turned ON.
Corona virus cant see in pitch black. to stay safe
UK is not using metric measurement, so it’s actually mile instead of km. And pounds instead of kg.
So that figure 938km is actually quite of a doubt.
But yes, ppl in UK don’t drive that much. They prefer to work nearer to home and especially in London city will avoid driving or owning personal cars. And 90% of them driving manuals.
Imho, UK is using a mix of both metric & imperial measurement unit. Eg: fuel in UK priced based on per litre (£/L), but they use miles per galon (MPG) to measure fuel consumption . Strange doesn’t it?
I’ve seen a UK spec car, they can choose KM/h or MP/h to be display on the instrument cluster. (it’s an RX8}
UK so big but drivers only average 11,000km per year? So good. I KL-Selangor daily travel for work already 20,000 km each year. Such pampered lots these UK folks.
luckily they didn’t forget how to open the car doors or even how to start an engine.
They did… captioned: “forgetting to turn the ignition key.”
Here is called donation, pipu hepi so no problem.
No worries. After a couple of times behind the wheel…..everything will be back to normal.
Multitasking like driving + play HP will come back.
UK roadusers arent like Mesian roadusers, there they dont go around insulting abang-abang polis and then plead ignorance that they dont understand Bahasa.
As above
Is their lockdown like PKPD? Or just PKP? I mean… I studied in UK for 2 years. And I do not think that all housing areas is within walking distance to shops for necessities. So either they really complied fully 100% of not starting their cars at all to make a short drive for groceries and necessities or their DELIVERY and ONLINE system is that good, efficient and hassle-less. The last paragraph of top 10 errors are like…. serious??!!!
Bcoz their home delivery services has more variety and is more efficient than GrabFood.
Where does UK cyclist signs up for bicycles riding school?
I even forgot where I left my car after lock down…
Well I had problem when switching from driving manual to auto back and forth, small city car to more than 5 meter long MPV back and forth, but it was not long before I get used to either of them, less than one day even when have been using either one for quite a longer period. No, haven’t scrap a wheel on a kerb either. So I find UK people seems to be quite strange