Cars and the Phoenix Park

• Published date: 24 June 2022

How do these drivers manage in car parks or at traffic lights? Or is the phenomenon limited to the Phoenix Park? - Yours, etc

BARRY DOHERTY,

Dublin 7.

Sir, - Your article catalogues a litany of incidents of drivers who seem incapable of operating a mechanically propelled vehicle.

Many claim their vehicles are "cutting out". As a motorist, one would consider "clutch control" a fundamental skill of motoring. Unfortunately, driving standards seem to be plummeting at speeds greater than 30km/h! Perhaps it is time the...