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Driving Tests Getting Harder
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I'm glad I've already done mine now, because according to the news on Radio 1, they might be about to get a lot harder. Measures suggested include compulsory night and motorway lessons, and a required number of formal lessons before you can take your test (if I heard it correctly, they said possibly up to 100 hours!!!). Your thoughts? I personally think that if you saved enough on the insurance to cover the costs, far more people would do the Pass Plus. I did it, and I'm not sure whether it'll save me money, but I definitely thought it was a worthwhile course, and I'd definitely be in favour of more people being given training in driving on the motorway.
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100 hours seems excessive. But here a certain amount of hours is required, and what you go through during those lessons is already set by whatever authority takes care of such stuff. Meaning that it was compulsary for me to have a lesson after dark and on the motorway.
I am sorry, but after coming to England I've met a few people who have no clue whatsoever about what they're doing in the car. They shouldn't be on the road in the first place. And these are friends that I am talking about.
dismissing improvement because of that? Sounds strange to me.
Not sure whether it would help, but i've always wondered how the hell certain people pass their tests, it's like everything they learned goes in one ear and out the other.
But i sure don't want to take my driving test under more difficult circumstances than today, partly because i'm a lazy bastard.
But they say you don't learn to drive til after you pass anyway.
I've failed my driving test 5 times. I've never failed on one specific thing. Its something lame I do in my test each time. Like, in my last one, they changed the car on the day of the test due to something being wrong with the brakes on the other. I was failed for accidently slipping into 2nd gear from 3rd when I was meant to go into 4th. Its been stupid little things like that each time.
I'm a bit of a nervous thing so when I'm being tested, I do silly little things like that. I've practically given up.
My theory test has ran out which I need to do again and I can't afford anymore lessons, tests, etc. It costs a fortune.
100 hours is probably too much for many people, especially at £20-odd per hour. But 100 hours of tuition is going to be far better than 20 - new road users will have seen far more circumstances and conditions, and have had the supervision and teachings required to allow them to deal with so much more on the road.
Means Stace will never pass her test, which is probably a good thing . Just kidding... I think .
Maybe, but you'll have problems parking your plane down the high street...
I've probably already had that many lessons tbh.
You'll be well equipped for when the new laws come into effect then .
Sorry, I shouldn't be having a dig at you. I actually think you'd be a rea... erm... goo... erm... avera... erm... driver of comparable quality to most other road users .
Also, how would they know how many lessons you've had?
I mean, I've probably done that but I've given up for the time being. Would they make me take 100 lessons again?!
However, the artificial minimum hours required before a test is nothing but a money making scheme, if indeed it is true.
Also what happend with all these EU people coming over that can just go and exchange their license for a british one? Will they be forced to take theory tests, as they should be and 100 hrs before they can drive here?
Tbh, if I don't pass on my next one I never will if they make it any harder. My instructors adamant that there's no reason I should be failing, so god knows what happens to me out there - I dont feel like I'm driving any different.
Make them harder and I'm screwed.
I hope not, its already expensive enough as it is, and 100 complusory hours to way to much.
just more ways to rob your money if you ask me.
Me too! I hope I pass if they're going to make it harder
Back to driving test, if they run many like my first one then I can see why they need making harder. I did two laps of practically the same block (in opposite directions) in stop go traffic. Shiny daylight but no glare. Max speed (if we're lucky) would have been 25 mph. This is what happens when you put a test centre between a highstreet and a school. It was a complete joke of a test, which I failed.
I had two faults, a major for not giving way to a car which had right of way because the nice lady let me out of the side road, and waved at me to confirm this is what she meant when she was stationary and back from the junction. The minor was for gears. It makes a complete mockery of the test system that they run ones like that, it made no assesment of my driving ability what so ever.
The one I passed I took somewhere else (much shorter rebook time). It was near the dual carriage way (one of those ones that's just like a motorway) and was a true assesment of my ability.
It goes towards training more efficient drivers. What more could you want?
As said 100 hours seems excessive, but quite a few people on the English roads do not know how to drive - regardless of them having passed their driving test.
And i'm sure thats the case in every other nation on Earth too.
But I get your main point. But it's just a question of keeping in proportional. You can only increase the cost of motoring so much (whilst often spending the proceeds on other things) before people start to complain that you're using them as a blank chequebook.