52% support Highway Code retest every 10 years

[ebikeerwidnes]

My eldest did a speed awareness course. Perhaps an occupational hazard for an X5M owner.

Anyway, she tells me it was full of people arguing that it was unfair, 38 jn a 30 zone was OK at whatever time of day they happened caught at, it was a war on the motorists, blah blah blah.

She admits she was bang to rights and realised arguing would achieve nothing other than to prolong the agony, so he pinned back here ears, nodded sagely when required, and sat there quietly.

At the break the trainer approached her and told her that if she didnt engage he would have to mark he down as a non-attendance, forcing her to pretend to be angry and indignant. What was the point of that?

But I do like the idea of a one say course. 20 delegates at a time, one jn every town, self funding, its financially and logistically a more achievable proposition than a re test.

I have been on 2 - one was erased from the records when they discovered it was illegal

but anyway
the people running it started with the same thing
You have to take part - i.e. contribute
so we will start with a voluntary round the table where you say what THEY SAY you were doing and where it was
no criticism - just the facts
if you say that then you have contributed and i can write that down

After that the day will go faster if you make comments - but if you want to sit there quietly that is fine by me as long as I have something to justify saying you have taken part

everyone said what they had been done for and no complaining

I actually thought it was done very well and any moaning was headed off
they basically said they were there to say why the rules are what they are and not to justify them

 

[gavroche]

I don't think a test is the right way to do it. I would favour an assessment by an ADI so he/she can pinpoint the bad habits and correct them.
It should also include a refresment of the Highway code as most people never bother after passing their test.

 

[Dadam]

I did a course last summer, the first time I've been done for speeding ever; though I've been stopped by police a couple of times in my boy racer days many years ago. I was bang to rights. I even calculated my speed from the evidence photos and the lines on the road and my calc was within 0.5 mph of what they said. OK fair enough.

I found it pretty useful and has had an effect on me, but the instructor was nowhere near as strict as some by the sound of it. He said as long as you stay to the end you can't fail the course. One guy on my table was really not happy, moaning all the time but usually under his breath. At the end you had to fill in a sheet with your plan of what you intended to do differently. He just wrote bored bored BORED all over it! He passed the course too!

 

[Hicky]

Having to complete a matrix test(basically the same) for the army every 12 months shown how little we all knew irrespective of our obvious abilities 🫣
I’d be in favour if it was implemented properly….which bit wouldn’t be.

 

[markemark]

Of course far easier would be banning all dodgy npr dodging number plates and scrapping the 12 points. Every fine is 3 months ban. Get it 4 times and permanent ban.

 

[Alex321]

Of course far easier would be banning all dodgy npr dodging number plates and scrapping the 12 points. Every fine is 3 months ban. Get it 4 times and permanent ban.

For "far easier" read "utterly impossible".

It may be simpler, but simler doesn't mean the same as easier, and there is no chance any party proposing that could get elected, or survive the next election if they brought it in without having it in their mandate.

The first part (banning the dodgy number plates) is already present in law, it is enforcing it that is the issue.

 

[Drago]

The first part (banning the dodgy number plates) is already present in law..

That's not exactly correct. The law didn't anticipate a lot of the "dodgy" numb plate styles and has been re-drafted about 20 years back to ban some of them, and is about to be re-drafted again.

 

[slowmotion]

The current waiting time for a practical driving test is 22 weeks in England. If people are to have tests five times more frequently during their motoring life than they currently do, what do you think the revised waiting time would be?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

The current waiting time for a practical driving test is 22 weeks in England. If people are to have tests five times more frequently during their motoring life than they currently do, what do you think the revised waiting time would be?

About the same
but only if they spend a LOT of money setting the system up to be able to do it

AND - no politician is going to get elected - or stay in office - if they do that AND force every driver to pay what it costs