Makes much more sense... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by LotusElise
But regular retesting should be considered. It would certainly sharpen up people's skills and make them value their licence more.
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Makes much more sense... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by LotusElise
But regular retesting should be considered. It would certainly sharpen up people's skills and make them value their licence more.
Good point Caroline. Also raising the age to 18 wont make the slightest difference, all that will happen is that people wait longer. Simply before even being allowed a prov they should do a maturity test to see if they are up to learning to drive :)
I'm dead against the retest idea. It cost me so much money, time and effort, not mention mental and emotional torture to pass the damn thing, I'd like to think that's me past that stage. :s
Or are you like my dad and are worried that you wouldn't pass now because you have forgoten how to drive properly and got into bad habits? :p :
So if this rule passes, what happens to the people who are not yet 18 but have passed their driving tests and have a license.
Make them take the test again(for free) when they're 18.Quote:
Originally Posted by RaikkonenRules
I should like to point out with all of this that society expects its members by some degree to become fully functioning citizens by the time they are 18. At age 18 the Inland Revenue relaxes the dependancy rules, and people have the right to vote.
By raising the driving age to 18, in effect you're confining people who might be qualified to work, to a life of scrounging and using public transport, which might sound useful in theory, but what if you happen to be an apprentice for a plumber or a sparky? What of the young parents with kids who may need to cart them around? If you're working at Tesco until midnight, how are you supposed to get home after the trains and buses stop?
By the time I was 18 I was independent from my parents and was already driving from Blackpool up and down the highways of the realm. I had a job and was "mature" enough to pay bills and upkeep on it even though it was crap.
How do you reconcile that to the removal of freedoms that would be considered normal elsewhere?
Raising the age limit won't make a tiny bit of difference. I see a lot of young drivers come thru my doors and I know damn well after teaching them everything I know about safe defensive driving, 50% of them will be driving like tits within a month. It makes no difference if they are 17 and a half or 18 and a day.
Personally I favour a system similar to the french, whereby driving is taught in stages. Perhaps as young as 15 as part of school education and can be passed in stages from private road training to master basic skills, onto day time driving, night, motorway etc. Regulation could be achieved by enforcing the use of P plates (linked to the insurance and number plate recognition) of different colours to denote how qualified any particular driver is, therefore the police or an automated camera could detect any driver using roads beyond their level.
I don't favour the limitations on vehicles, we have all seen enough 106's or saxo's filled with teen's driving flat out - even a 1.0L can hit nearly 100mph. Its the driver attitude that needs adjusting not the cars they can drive.
On a related issue, I think the Government ought to consider some kind of legal definition of what constitutes a 'minor', for want of a better word. The inconsistency between different aspects of life in this respect does seem unnecessary. How can some public events, for instance, state that a child is 'under 12' for the purpose of their entry fees, while others take the relevant age to be 16? There are other, better examples.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollo
True. I remember having to pay full fare on the train to the cinema, but not being allowed to see an 18 film!