Chris, just a quick one, because I get asked this quite a lot. Why is there a theory test?

I don't know. Um, so if, if, if we go with, if we go with the logical reason, everything that we do should be to make the road safer and to make drivers safer. So why is there theory as in why are there rules? It's so that we know what we're doing to make us safe so that we're protecting other people against ourselves. Because they know what to expect, that makes us predictable, and predictable is safer, and then if other people are doing something, we can see the predictable ones and they're not a danger to us, and we can spot the ones that aren't predictable and get out of their way. So, that makes us safer. so, theory as knowledge, as things that are there and rules, that's why it's there. Why is there a theory test to prove that you know those rules, but if it doesn't make the road safer, if you couldn't pass the practical test without knowing the rules, then there isn't a point for it and, except for the fact it will put me out of a job. I would argue that if, if there isn't a point, we should get rid of it. Or, my, my preferred point, bring in something that's really good, which, you know, if anyone is listening who has that ability, I've got it written already, I'll happily, uh, you know, sell it to them. Um, so, I, I think looking at what makes us safer is what we need to be doing with the theory test. So, what, what that results in Is none of us take it seriously enough and then it becomes a problem to people and then that becomes the point that it's a problem and not it's a solution. It's not something to get you there. Um, so we all need to be looking for the good in the theory, and not getting annoyed about the fact that actually some of it is pointless.

Now I know, so when you were talking about that, I love that idea that Making everybody predictable on the road so that you can, you can be predictable and so that you can spot other people who are predictable and you all know what you're doing. That made me think very much about community on the road. That idea that actually you, we all have a bit of a community agreement. almost, to behave in certain ways, act in certain ways, so that everyone knows what they're doing to keep us safe. It's almost like a bit of a dance, isn't it, on the road.

and, I think it's exactly that. It's, it's that thing where it's not about us. And I, I think insurance is a lovely example of this. I only realised this the other day, third party cover, the only thing you're not covering is you. You don't insure your car, you insure the rest of the world against you. Doing something and we all do that. We're protecting other people. It's it's about other people. because the assumption is we're all going to do our best and that's good enough because if everyone does that, we look after each other and, you know, it is, I think when we think about driving, it's a system. As you said, it's a community and we, if we can work together. Actually, you know, you, you do see things that sometimes, you, you question their values of what's important. You talk to that person, they're not deliberately trying to be dangerous, they just have a different view of what safe is. And they're doing it still, so it must have gone reasonably well up to that point. So we're part of that community, just because we're on a different part of that bell curve of what's safe and what isn't. As long as we all End up in a, in a good, safe average position, then, we should all end up relatively safe.

Which is what we're all after, isn't it? At the end of the day, if everyone stays safe, everyone stays happy. Which is always good.

you, you don't have to, you don't have to be perfect, because the lovely thing about that predictability is, as long as you can predictably get it totally wrong, so you're obvious about the fact that you're, you're doing something that, because you misunderstood, or, you know, you didn't see it, or you saw it differently, as long as you can predictably get it wrong, so other people look at you and go, well that's silly, they'll keep out your way. And we haven't got to be optimum all the time. We can have a bad day and still stay inside of that bubble of safety, which I, I like that approach. I think, I think that works, works well.