My Life, My Car: I Don’t Like It When People Take Driving Lessons “Just to Get a Licence”

According to Pivrncová, the most important qualities of a driver are patience, considerateness, tolerance and an ability to focus and anticipate situations before they happen. Not everything can be taught in driving lessons, however. “I don’t think that driving schools can really do much about aggression, arrogance, recklessness and the deliberate breaching of the most basic rules of polite behaviour and the law,” she notes, adding that greater surveillance and stricter penalties could help to improve the situation.