[8][9][non-primary source needed] Their campaigns for reduced traffic congestion argue for more investment in infrastructure for motor vehicles and opposing reduction in space for cars.

[12] In 2004, The Guardian reported that Bernard Abrams, a scientist and a director of the ABD, had stated that global warming is a "sham" and that the world is getting cooler.

[14] In 2004, The Guardian said that the ABD claimed to have 9000 members (0.007% of the UK's 31.7 million drivers) and challenged this by saying that the group's filing at Companies House meant that the number was "far fewer".

[15] In 2004, the then chief constable of North Wales Police, Richard Brunstrom, described the Association of British Drivers as an "unduly influential … pressure group."

Wenban-Smith characterised the group as "lobbyists with obvious axes to grind, who have found ‘stuff on the internet’ from eccentrics and obsessives," and hold "biased and fringe views.