She says she has received amber ratings when commuting to Belfast for work and a red score when she had to brake sharply on a country road. <\/p>\n
In comparison, when her parents have driven the vehicle manually, they received green scores.<\/p>\n
“I know I’m not a dangerous driver, but there is a difference whenever I drive. I’ll always get knocked down a bit on the smoothness,” she says.<\/p>\n
“I worry because the scheme is so great. For people to be kicked off just because of small things that aren’t their fault, it would be such a big let-down to a lot of disabled people.”<\/p>\n
Fletcher says this was not something Motability was aware of, but it would look into and would continue to gather information over the coming months.<\/p>\n
As well as the black box, Motability has introduced recommendations that drivers take a break every hour and aim not to do more than six journeys a day. If that is exceeded, the driver will receive a red score, but it will not impact their lease.<\/p>\n
It has also halved the number of miles drivers can make each year before they pay an excess. <\/p>\n
Drivers will now be able to drive 10,000 miles before paying 25p on any miles travelled over that limit. Previously, the mileage was 20,000 with an excess of 5p a mile.<\/p>\n
Motability says its average drives clock up 7,500 miles a year and Scotland’s version of the scheme was still considering the cap.<\/p>\n
But for Day, the recommendations are frustrating and impede his independence.<\/p>\n
“I live in rural Cornwall, everything is an hour away,” he says. <\/p>\n
“If I wanted to go to London, which is where the majority of my work is, and I had to stop every hour, I couldn’t get to work. It’s just madness.”<\/p>\n
Even so, he is excited for the “freedom and access to the world” his new vehicle on the scheme will give him.<\/p>\n
“I wouldn’t be able to go to work without mine,” he says. “I wouldn’t be able to have a social life.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She says she has received amber ratings when commuting to Belfast for work and a red score when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-508365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}