Driving Instructors and Vision Zero: Why This Matters

After a long hiatus, Driving Instructors and Vision Zero returns, re-framed, re-focused, and rebuilt as a collaboration.

In this relaunch episode, The Instructor Podcast's Terry Cook is joined by road safety professional and former police advanced driver Olly Tayler to explain why the podcast has evolved from Driving Instructors to Vision Zero into Driving Instructors and Vision Zero, and why that word change matters.

This is an honest, wide-ranging conversation about:

1. Why driving instructors are still the most underused road safety professionals
2. how habits, complacency, and “I’ll get away with it” thinking really form
3. the limits of enforcement and the power of education and coaching
4. reading the road, seeing risk early, and planning for “what if?”
5. what the new Road Safety Strategy gets right — and what it misses
6. graduated licensing, minimum learning periods, and post-test risk
7. why drug driving is now the bigger blind spot than drink driving
8. and why real culture change takes years, not press releases

The episode also introduces the idea of a wider monthly panel, a group of road safety professionals and instructor voices coming together to bridge the gap between policy, practice, and the real world.

This podcast isn’t about blame.

It’s about responsibility.

We’re doing our bit for road safety.

What are you doing?