![]() I was lucky enough while riding bikes to have the innate mind set that "Everyone on this road is trying to kill me" partially because that theory was proven true a couple of times.Įventually I still had a really nasty accident, a lot of time in a hospital bed with half my body broken, I'm now pinned together with a lot of metal. In my eyes experience outdoes any testing by a mile. Even the no-profit volunteers cost well over £40 for the same trip with very limited availability.ĭon't have a valid theory test pass either.īut I've been a road user on 125cc bikes for a long time. I can’t drive any more and have moved to a city as it was impossible to live in the village we were in without a car. Why keep introducing more rules that won’t be enforced either? On another related point how would older people live in remote areas as there’s no public transport. There are already a huge number of laws around cars and driving but most are not policed or enforced, even when reported. Reading the local paper (Cornwall) a high proportion of accidents involved drink, drugs and/or already disqualified drivers. Another former neighbour more recently had no mot/tax/insurance and bald tires. I found out after the event his car had no mot for over a year with dodgy brakes he couldn’t afford to fix. My former neighbour regularly drove back home pissed as did all his mates at their weekend meet-ups. The instructor will then not take them for test and they will either have to move it or take their own car.įinally a lot of instructors/examiners are leaving the profession as the job is stressful and Covid was hard on them.Ī big problem with driving is the number of drivers with no mot, tax, insurance, etc or already suspended. Then contact the instructor 2/3 months before the test and only be able to get a few hours in and then not be ready for test. They will see 6 months and think I’ve got loads of time. ![]() Those learning are not helping the wait time either with a lot of learners postponing lessons because wait times are so long and they want to save money. There is also a lot of ‘cowboy’ instructors popping up (No instructor training but still charging for lessons denoted by Green/pink badge in window) leading to people not being prepared adequately for the test. A lot of instructors are fully booked or have limited availability leading to people holding onto tests until the last possible chance (7 working days before) and then changing it if they have to. You could lower costs further by using classrooms at local colleges or even dvla practical test centres.Ī lot of issues have occurred due to covid one is people are booking tests before they have even had a lesson/secured an instructor. You could have an extra 34(37 total) staff per centre and still be break even. If you needed 1 extra member of staff per centre that would be £2.52m a year. Giving an extra £88.1m profit to go towards road safety campaigns, marketing, enforcement (which would bring extra cash in via fines), etc. 5m people refreshing would raise £125m a year and would require 84 refresher centres around the uk. So every 10 years (given equal expiry dates) would mean 5m people a year need refreshing. Say there is 2 classrooms in a centre that’s £1.5m a year raised by that 1 refresher centre and 60k people processed Across 250 working days (52 Sundays and 53 Saturdays and 10 bank holidays) ![]() I’m sure a 4 x 2 hour sessions each with 30 people a day which costs £25 to attend would cover the costs. If we could do that though we'd have safer roads and create great employment opportunities. Current levels of satisfaction are not great, there's a backlog of tests due to covid, and executing millions of extra tests aach year is no mean feat. We would need to make being a driving examiner a more attracting proposition though. The Highway Code has changed multiple times a year every year for decades so I think it should be tested more regularly, else people will fall behind with changes to the law and recommendations. Personally, I think everybody should have a practical test every 10 years and a theory test every 5 years. But elderly people who have had tonswitch vehicles for their elderly driving test in other countries have struggled simply having a different vehicle. You can take tests in your own car, but most people take them in dual control vehicles, so examiners can take control if needed, and that is the government preference for obvious reasons. Part of the problem was actually test vehicles. They concluded that it wasn't such a problem to be worthwhile. So, the DfT did actually consider the evidence around this some years ago.
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