"HOW To Fail Your Driving Test" (BBC1, June 1) was a programme which I hope many of your motoring readers saw. It was an intriguing, yet frustrating, hour with a subtle title.

As a driving instructor, I squirmed at what I saw and heard. Relatives always think they can teach people to drive and the authorities positively encourage them.

In the last 40 years the number of vehicles has increased ten-fold to 30 million and the Highway Code now has more than 20 pages. The current L-test costs not far short of £40 and professional lessons are less than half that amount. This is an investment towards "driving for life" and could be supplemented by additional family driving.

As for Mr Q. Willson demonstrating his "expertise" after 20 years' experience, what on earth was he doing subjecting his abject failures to a Driving Standards Agency examiner? Do the programme makers not know about the national groups promulgating advanced driving techniques? Bury has one such group which has been in existence for 20 years.

Join our ranks, Quentin, and with such guidance you would improve your driving. Then sit an advanced driving test and be examined by a Class I police driving examiner. Now there is a challenge!

The Bury group's Open Day is on Sunday, June 24, at the Mosses Centre, 10am to 4pm. Our theme this year is "Room For Improvement". I don't think anyone could argue with that.

KEITH SCRANAGE,

chairman, Bury Group.