{"id":8442,"date":"2019-03-07T11:50:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T11:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=8442"},"modified":"2019-03-07T11:50:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T11:50:05","slug":"road-whisperer-sends-safety-message-to-new-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/road-whisperer-sends-safety-message-to-new-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRoad Whisperer\u201d sends safety message to new drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new road safety campaign launched by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.think.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THINK!<\/a> uses a \u201cRoad Whisperer\u201d to send the message to new drivers that confidence comes with experience.<\/p>\n<p>The Jeff Bridges-style character, with a distinctive southern American drawl, is featuring in a series of films and GIFs to give new drivers tips that will help them deal with the challenges of driving alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone feels some nerves when they\u2019re on the road for the first time, but it takes a good driver to admit it,\u201d said Road Safety Minister Jesse Norman. \u201cConfidence comes with time and practice, so it\u2019s important to keep learning and build up experience to become a better driver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The films focus on situations where new drivers feel vulnerable or have the highest road casualties, including driving at night, and on country roads and motorways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4bnDbZLzv9o?rel=\u00d8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4bnDbZLzv9o?rel=\u00d8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new road safety campaign launched by THINK! uses a \u201cRoad Whisperer\u201d to send the message to new drivers that confidence comes with experience. The Jeff Bridges-style character, with a distinctive southern American drawl, is featuring in a series of films and GIFs to give new drivers tips that will help them deal with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}