View Full Version : Would you take a test every 3 years to keep bad drivers off the road ?
Would you take a test every 3 years that was designed to improve driver quality and stop dangerous driving from those who simply forget the rules of the road once they pass ?
If you are talking proficiancy test, yes. Can you drive safely, in any conditions, road manners etc.
Down the line driving test, no. I'd fail :( I have sooooo many bad habits, like keeping hold of teh gear change, changing down into r'abouts, breaking speed limits where road conditions allow...
I am a safe driver. But I'm not a text book driver...
I do think a proficiancy test is a good idea. Start with where are your mirrors and indicators to weed out the useless ones, then progress to the easy stuff like double roundabout, lights controlled etiquette.
I agree that there should be some form of test every number of years. If you fail then you should have to repass your driving test again, or sacrifice your license.
A friend of my mothers was an absolute hazard on the road. She used to turn into side junctions on the wrong side of the road, and only escaped death or serious injury by other people getting out of her way. She left my mothers one night and drove into a parked car because she didn't bother demisting her windscreen before she left. She had never taken any form of driving test because she started driving before they had been introduced. Luckily she is no longer on the road, and amazingly she is still alive.
If Hayley sees this I am sure she will be less polite about her.
RichSeal
15-01-2003, 14:00
I think a risk awareness test would be good too. Took one for my current insurance company and get 10% off my premiums :)
I think a driving profficiency test and a risk assessment test should be compulsory every 3-5 years.
If you fail, you should be made to undergo retraining and then retested within a couple of months.
If you still fail then I think you should lose your license and revert to being a learner who can only drive whilst accompanied until such time as you manage to pass.
Lets face it the driving test is hardly rocket science and it would do all of us good to lose our bad habbits from time to time no matter how safe we think we are. If you haven't got the nouse to pass after retraining then you've really got no business on the road anyway.
Will Taylor
15-01-2003, 14:36
I've always thought a proficiency test would be a good thing - if only to weed out elderly drivers that passed 60 years ago, but are not equipped with the faculties to handle todays busier roads.
Richard - what company are you with, cos that sounds pretty cool...
Maybe a good start would be to make everybody take the theory test, anybody who is driving should be able to pass ...
mock theory test (http://www.dsa.gov.uk/)
click on the link and select mock theory tests from the left hand side.
I would imagine that there are a large number of motorists that wouldn't pass.
RichardM
15-01-2003, 15:02
It wouldn't stop those who already pay people to sit the test for them, doing the same again.
Now if they introduced REAL verifiable ID cards........
Thanks Andy. I took the mock test and FAILED. :mad: :mad:
Stupid bloody questions.
Originally posted by Hayley
Thanks Andy. I took the mock test and FAILED. :mad: :mad:
Stupid bloody questions.
get off the road and hand that vehicle over to me... :)
Originally posted by Hayley
Try and take her. ;) :D
umm i just failed it as well... hehe, urrrr...
They've obviosuly changed the mock test since I did it...
SOme of those Qs I have NEVE Rseen... or even got the answers for... turning right onto a DC with a narrow central reserve???
wtf does that mean? Are you in a side junction about to join the dual?
are they talking 4 lane, 2 in each direction, with a central turning spot in the middle? Or a 2 laner - 1 each direction? if so, whats a 2 laner doing with a central reservation? Badly worded question, or am I being fick?
Still passed tho :D
And got that one right
Can't remember the answer I gave tho
Bugger
Got 34 out of 35 :D
Got the warning triangle distance wrong.
Sorry Hayley, looks like I'm cooking tea tonight :rolleyes:
I'd be alright with a 'refresher' test every 3-5 years. Not a full re-test, just a cut down version.
If you fail that more than three times I'd like to see people having to take and pass an obligitary half day driving course (which you would have to pay for) - and if you fail that more than three times I think you should lose your license until you can take a proper test again...
Sound fair? There's 6 chances to not fail!
Originally posted by AndyT
Got 34 out of 35 :D
Got the warning triangle distance wrong.
Sorry Hayley, looks like I'm cooking tea tonight :rolleyes:
SNAP!!!!:D:D:D:D:D:D
Got 34 out of 35 and guess what;)
Got the warning triangle distance wrong:D
Its just soooo bloody easy, real common sense.:cool:
Anyone who fails should be shot:p :p :p ;) ;) :D :D
tim rome
15-01-2003, 17:46
35 out of 35, there again i wouldnt expect anything else, driving is what i do for a living
hehe looks like we have at least 3 full time drifters harrasing slow drivers :)
I wouldn't, but not because I disagree.
I could never pass again, I've already lost my lisence once, and work is living hell for me without it.
Mike_S13
16-01-2003, 07:45
I think that a test every few years would be a good idea. I also think that there should be a limit to the number of times you can take your first test- i knew one bloke that took more than 10 tests till he passed, surely he cant be a good driver? Driver 'confidence' should also be a part of the test - as drivers with too much confidence can be dangerous as well as people that get scared when they come to a new stretch of road and don't know where to go, or stop on a motorway sliproad because the traffic is quite heavy.
Another thing i'd like to see is a graded test for cars in that you have one licence for front wheel drive cars, one for rear wheel drive..... or one licence for 1300cc engined cars and under, 1301cc-2000cc then one for 2001cc+. It seems silly to me that you can get out of a corsa the day you passed your test and jump in somthing like a 2*****.
Martin T
16-01-2003, 11:20
If I changed the system, I would have the 17 year olds test the same, with a max of 3 tries, then have to wait 1 year.
They would then have to have a Red "P" on the vehicle, and would have to have another test 6 months later. This would be like the pass plus (in the pass plus the instructor just has to be happy that you can handle the roads, no test as such minimum of 6 hours in all kinds of roads and conditions).
After passing the pass plus, they would have a Green "P" on their vehicle. They would then have another 6 months to take an "Advanced" style driving test where they would have to pass the skid pan test. They would walk away with either an FD or RD license. They would then be restricted to vehicles producing less than 100BHP and 85 BHP per tonne. At 19 it would go up to something like 130 BHP and 100 BHP per tonne, 20 180 BHP and 140 BHP/tonne. 21 You would have to take a high powered vehicle test to drive any vehicle of any power. There would be no allowances for restrictors etc. If the car standard pushes out too much power or power per tonne, then tuff sh*t.
Also, evey 2 years, people would have to take either a Pass Plus style test, a skidpan test, or a full (different to original) test with very specific failing criteria.
This may mean that it costa a bit more to run a car, but we are talking about another £120 every 2 years, and the average person spends more than £1500 per year on petrol. If any test is failed, the driver has 3 Months/2 retries to pass it or they have to wait one year, and start from scratch (except without the engine restrictions.
People have to realise that just because they can afford a large deadly weapon, they dont have a right to use it and risk other peoples lives by not being capable of using it properly.
This would have two benefits to people like us. It would reduce congestion by getting rid of sh*tty drivers.
It would reduce the number of sh*tty drivers to get stuck behind/p*ssed off with.
Hehe, 35 out of 35 on the mock test - and the stopping distance I just selected an option at random :D
Nismo_Freak
16-01-2003, 15:50
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