Tag: Driving Instructors


  • They Didn’t Grow Up in the World We Did

    Today’s young learner drivers grew up in a very different world from many of the instructors teaching them. Rather than labelling those differences, what might we learn by understanding the influences that shaped them?

  • Better technology should make running a driving school feel simpler, not more complicated. Technology has transformed almost every aspect of running a driving school. Online diaries have replaced paper appointments. Electronic payments have replaced cash. Lesson records can be completed on a mobile phone. Websites generate enquiries while we’re teaching. Artificial intelligence is beginning to…

  • Who Looks After the Person in the Passenger Seat?

    We spend our working lives thinking about the person sitting beside us. Perhaps occasionally we need to think about the person sitting in our own seat too. When you’re a driving instructor, most of your working day is naturally focused on somebody else. Are they safe? Are they learning? Are they anxious? Did they understand…

  • AI & Technology

    We’ve Been Here Before: Making AI Useful, One Small Step at a Time AI can do some extraordinary things. But perhaps the best place to start isn’t with what AI can do. It’s with something you’d like to make easier. When I was growing up, if you wanted to telephone somebody, you used the landline…