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- Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:32 am
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Totally agree. Especially the last bit. I've argued for ages that you should have to resit your test when it comes time to renew your photo license - which is every ten years (mine is actually due in October this year - that ten years went by quick!)
And for all the complaints about them constantly making the driving test harder, I think it should be made harder still. Again, your suggestions about skidpans and such sound good to me.
I'd go further still and say that there should be stages of passing as well. You should need to pass a preliminary test that proves you can handle the basics. Until you pass that you shouldn't even be out on the road. After that you get the one you get now, before moving onto a third test where you get all the stuff like motorways, night driving, dangerous conditions etc. A bit like pass-plus, but mandatory and harder than it is now. Only when you've passed all three can you drive on your own whenever you like. If you've only passed the first two you shouldn't be on motorways, driving in dangerous conditions, and you should be curfewed.
None of this is hard to implement - and there's precedent too. The motorbike test is split up after all, so why not the car test?
Obviously the renewal test should check you can still do everything in all three tests. So if you fail your renewal you should get an indication of which of the three tests (possibly more than one) you should have to resit.
And for all the tree hugging hippies, this will probably cut the number of cars on the road and reduce accidents. So you win there too.
And while President Munki here is reforming, I'm scrapping road tax in favour of a usage based tax. The more you use the roads, the more you pay. It actually already exists. It's called "fuel duty".
And for all the complaints about them constantly making the driving test harder, I think it should be made harder still. Again, your suggestions about skidpans and such sound good to me.
I'd go further still and say that there should be stages of passing as well. You should need to pass a preliminary test that proves you can handle the basics. Until you pass that you shouldn't even be out on the road. After that you get the one you get now, before moving onto a third test where you get all the stuff like motorways, night driving, dangerous conditions etc. A bit like pass-plus, but mandatory and harder than it is now. Only when you've passed all three can you drive on your own whenever you like. If you've only passed the first two you shouldn't be on motorways, driving in dangerous conditions, and you should be curfewed.
None of this is hard to implement - and there's precedent too. The motorbike test is split up after all, so why not the car test?
Obviously the renewal test should check you can still do everything in all three tests. So if you fail your renewal you should get an indication of which of the three tests (possibly more than one) you should have to resit.
And for all the tree hugging hippies, this will probably cut the number of cars on the road and reduce accidents. So you win there too.
And while President Munki here is reforming, I'm scrapping road tax in favour of a usage based tax. The more you use the roads, the more you pay. It actually already exists. It's called "fuel duty".
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