Simplistic / Views speed in isolation to Surprise and Space in the infinitely variable number of situations faced
Nuanced / realistic. Sees Speed in relation to Surprise and Space
Numerical Speed / Illegal or Inappropriate Speed in terms of arbitrarily set speed limits
Safe Speed / Appropriate for the road situation
Drivers direct attention to speedometer out of fear of being caught speeding
Drivers scan the road ahead for danger and drive at a safe speed intuitively with regard to surprise and space
Emphasis of Hands and Feet skills
Emphasis on Eye and Brain (plus Hands and Feet) skills
Emphasis on the Highway Code and compliance with Rules
Emphasis on processing information to minimise risk
Punish after the event
Prevent before the event
Doing what’s easy
Doing what’s right
Wasteful (Doing the wrong things)
Best use of scarce resources. Doing the right things
Poundshop policing / Policing by fear and coercion
Proper policing / Policing by consent
Emphasis on enforcement / compliance
Emphasis on driver judgement achieved through better education and training / aspiration and willing co-operation
Riddled with waste (John Seddon)
Value Work / little administration
Punish drivers who exceed arbitrary numerical speed limits
Train and encourage drivers to take personal responsibility for driving at a safe speeds which minimise risk to themselves and others through collisions
Extrinsic Motivation (McGregor’s Theory X)
Intrinsic Motivation (McGregor’s Theory Y)
Reductionist / focuses solely on speed
Whole System / focuses on speed in relation to surprise and space
Focus on fearful compliance and punishment
Focus on natural human values, not to harm self and others
Lose / Lose & Lose Win thinking
Win / Win thinking
System Doing To
System Doing With
Technology led (Speed Cameras)
Human led. Training for better driving
Speed Awareness Courses for compliance
Mid Driving Courses for skills improvement
Disengaging and remote (current zeitgeist)
Engaging and personal with incorporation of discretion
Alienation and resentment
Supporting and encouraging
One driving test
Lifelong learning and retraining
Breeds resentment in driver caught being human / doing their best / undermines the law
Breeds gratitude /encourages support for the law
Doesn’t make for better drivers
Does make for better drivers
Quick Fix thinking
Long term thinking
Uses technocratic enforcement
Personalised and humane
Resisted and disliked
Accepted and welcomed
Officers having to justify their activity in a way that they never have to do for other offences
No need to justify their activity
Admin waste
All value work
Learning to Drive (Hand and Feet)
Coaching to drive better (eye and brain
No emphasis on risk
Risk management
Noi discretion
Discretion
No night school / group learning
Group learning cohorts
Lees simulators
More simulators
Accountants mentality
Entrepreneurs mentality
Pessimistic
Hopeful / Optimistic
Facile and unsophisticated. Blunt instrument. One size fits all
Sophisticated / systemic and nuanced
Betrays a superficial understanding of what causes crashes and how to reduce them
Continuous learning
Product of Civil Service / Road Safety Industrial Complex organisational groupthink
Product of Stephen Haley (Real people, real drivers, real driving instructors’insights)
Messy Objectives including aspects irrelevant to safety eg climate change
Clear Objectives all focussed on road safety
Soundbite virtue signalling (Vision Zero)
Hard graft
One size fits all enforcement
Appropriate enforcement focussed on those that most need punishing / taking off the road including with bad attitudes