I guess you're right, it's so much harder to total somebody else's horse without your's ending up in a similar conditions. ;)

I'm suprised to hear you say your teacher told you to do things differently in real life than the exam. Ours just the other way around, he was all about safe, defensive driving, particularly with the boys who were already having wet dreams about speeing down the motorway. Most driving instructors who've been around long enough to have a resonable list of clients who killed or severly injured themselves within the first 12 month of getting their license. Very few people need encouragement to break rules, they do that all by themselves.