Sir, – I read that driving tests may include visual exercises and simulations, ensuring that motorists can spot hazards on the roads ("Simulated driving tests may be down the road", Home News, June 6th).
Will this involve simulation as to what it is like to be a cyclist? A kind of reverse-engineering type of scenario could be created – the driver as virtual cyclist.
I cycle every day, and inevitably, at least once a week, I get put in a position of hair-raising danger by car and lorry drivers. Perhaps if drivers had to experience some virtual cycling, amid chance-taking drivers, it might save a handful of cyclist lives?
Meanwhile I am purchasing a rear light that has an always-on digital video camera to witness and warn devil-may-care drivers. – Yours, etc,
LOUIS HEMMINGS,
Newtownpark Avenue,
Blackrock, Co Dublin.