A lower standard is not applied to adults, regardless of the fact that they may be inexperienced and doing their best in the circumstances. Also, we have already seen that in Nettleship v Weston [1971] 2 QB 691, a learner driver was required to drive to the standard of a reasonably competent driver, notwithstanding her lack of experience. Emphasising the objective test for negligence, Lord Denning said that the required standard of care ‘... eliminates the personal equation and is independent of the idiosyncrasies of the particular person whose act is in question’.