Driving Test

jaysay · 04-06-2010, 15:35

Driving test to be revamped - Yahoo! Cars
There's been a new section added to the driving test, I was just wondering how many seasoned drives think they would pass first time if they had to retake their driving test under today's rules

shillelagh · 04-06-2010, 15:56

i very much doubt i would .. but yet if i do get my licence again .. i can jump into a car and drive anywhere .. without having to do a retest .. even though its over 5 years since ive driven ... well i still have another year to do ..

JCB · 04-06-2010, 19:07

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Driving test to be revamped - Yahoo! Cars
There's been a new section added to the driving test, I was just wondering how many seasoned drives think they would pass first time if they had to retake their driving test under today's rules

I'm still puzzled , jaysay , how so many of the young unseasoned drivers ever managed to pass under today's rules.
It's like Formula 1 on some of the streets around here , even in 20mph zones.

cashman · 04-06-2010, 19:19

a better revamp would be raise the age to 21.

Less · 04-06-2010, 19:30

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a better revamp would be raise the age to 21.

And perhaps lower the to stop driving age to 20?

Then no-one can say we are just picking on the young?

cashman · 04-06-2010, 19:33

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Then no-one can say we are just picking on the young?

Why i like doing.?

accyman · 05-06-2010, 00:45

ahh bless yet another test to raise revenue from all those thousands of people just itching to get their first car.The theory test is a waste of time and nothing more than a gloryfied version of when the examiner would pick a few questions out teh highway code at the end of a test .

your either fit to be on the road or your not and that is what the whole point of teh examiner is for to assess your drivig ability and 10 mins or whatever clicking a mouse on a pc screen will not come in handy out in the real world.Infact if they must insist on having that theory test it shoudl be taken with an upset girlfriend next to you or with a screaming kid on the back seat or both if they want to simulate a real hazzard lol

jaysay · 05-06-2010, 08:59

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ahh bless yet another test to raise revenue from all those thousands of people just itching to get their first car.The theory test is a waste of time and nothing more than a gloryfied version of when the examiner would pick a few questions out teh highway code at the end of a test .

your either fit to be on the road or your not and that is what the whole point of teh examiner is for to assess your drivig ability and 10 mins or whatever clicking a mouse on a pc screen will not come in handy out in the real world.Infact if they must insist on having that theory test it should be taken with an upset girlfriend next to you or with a screaming kid on the back seat or both if they want to simulate a real hazzard lol

For once I disagree with you accyman, I think the theory test IS a good idea as is this new initiative. Myself I would like to see a restriction on the engine size for people who have just passed their test, they take and pass the test in a car with say1000cc engine then can immediately jump into a supped mortar with a 3000cc engine. How many young people have an accident within weeks of passing their tests

Less · 05-06-2010, 09:19

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For once I disagree with you accyman, I think the theory test IS a good idea as is this new initiative. Myself I would like to see a restriction on the engine size for people who have just passed their test, they take and pass the test in a car with say1000cc engine then can immediately jump into a supped mortar with a 3000cc engine. How many young people have an accident within weeks of passing their tests

Not just younger people and not just those that have supped mortar, (if you're going to drink and drive, don't have something that will make you constipated).

I think it is unfortunately part of the learning process for some folk, no matter what size or type of car.

jaysay · 05-06-2010, 09:28

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Not just younger people and not just those that have supped mortar, (if you're going to drink and drive, don't have something that will make you constipated).

I think it is unfortunately part of the learning process for some folk, no matter what size or type of car.

Well I agree Less but having no restrictions of the size of motor a newly qualified can drive is madness, irrespective of age, to me if you want to drive a car with a massive engine then pass the test in it. I think the test hasn't changed much since I took mine many moons ago, in my day you didn't learn to drive you learned to pass a test, only afterwards did you start learning to drive

Less · 05-06-2010, 09:50

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Well I agree Less but having no restrictions of the size of motor a newly qualified can drive is madness, irrespective of age, to me if you want to drive a car with a massive engine then pass the test in it. I think the test hasn't changed much since I took mine many moons ago, in my day you didn't learn to drive you learned to pass a test, only afterwards did you start learning to drive

Considering the initial cost of a large 'supped mortar', and also the high insurance rates, I suspect that most young people have no choice but to be restricted to smaller cars, that is probably why we see so many strange modifications out there on the road, nobody seems to modify the larger cars unless it's with the aid of a boy racer in a smaller car.

jaysay · 05-06-2010, 12:16

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Considering the initial cost of a large 'supped mortar', and also the high insurance rates, I suspect that most young people have no choice but to be restricted to smaller cars, that is probably why we see so many strange modifications out there on the road, nobody seems to modify the larger cars unless it's with the aid of a boy racer in a smaller car.

Given the fact that if a car is modified in anyway, cranking up the engine, twin carbs etc your supposed to inform DVLC

Less · 05-06-2010, 15:45

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Given the fact that if a car is modified in anyway, cranking up the engine, twin carbs etc your supposed to inform DVLC

and their insurance company,
but, perhaps with a bog standard 1,000cc, or perhaps slightly larger, covered in the extra weight of all that fibre glass, then fitted with an extra large exhaust pipe/silencer cutting down on the tuning, to make it fart better but ruin performance, the roads are safer!
Long may the majority go for fancy rather than performance. At least us deaf old beggars can hear them coming AND stand a chance of moving out of the way, because they have knackered the performance of something so small.

THEN, after that, they will spend all Sunday cleaning & polishing their 'beast', also keeping the roads clear.

Jay' why complain? They are helping keep the roads safe. just by wasting their cash.