It’s just not a realistic assessment of real-life driving scores. Almost every single drive I get points deducted for Acceleration, Braking, or Cornerning. I’m not going to pretend like I’m a fantastic driver, but the deductions come from a totally unrealistic expectation of what it means to drive on the road. For example, if I’m on a roundabout with low visibility or pulling out at a junction with a blind corner further up (both of which appear on my daily commute), when I make the choice to go, it’s important to accelerate quickly - especially if a vehicle appears once in the middle of the manoeuvre. What am I supposed to do, reverse back into the car behind me? Every drive I get points deducted for this. My score only gets worse, not better. Even though I know that I’m showing a much higher degree of competency on the road. The only time I was getting a perfect score was the first few weeks on the road when I was trawling around the roads absolutely terrified and making every single choice very slowly. Even things like braking too quickly - regardless of whether you include incidents of someone braking quickly in front of you, the amount of time it wants you to take slowing down very gently is genuinely hard to achieve consistently without deduction.
I would not recommend this policy to anyone ever. It’s stressful, unfair, and inaccurate. Once this policy has finished, I will not be renewing, regardless of whether or not Hastings offers the cheapest policy. It is truly not worth your money.
3 years ago
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