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Dave Head
I would say that *very few* reasonably able-bodied people are simply *incapable* of pbutting a driving test such as the UK's.
Heck, even Maureen of "Driving School" fame *eventually* pbutted her test; and holding a full licence was a *prerequisite* of getting on Quentin Willson's "Britain's Worst Driver" series.
Some of the stuff in both programmes would have been well-nigh incredible had the cameras not been rolling ...
If you include something akin to the UK's driving test in "all kinds of extreme stuff" then I have to question your notion of "extreme".
Splorf!
There are plenty of places in Europe without great public transport.
British Snail and its successor companies have been a joke for many a long year; ditto the multifarious bus companies.
Habitual TailgatorWeren't we just talking about this? And all this time I thought the point of being a lead-foot was to get out in front! I'm driving down a freeway in the left lane...
Some time back, $EMPLOYER hired some coaches for a morning's do at a conference centre. I decided to take the afternoon off and go by car as the meeting was about half way to somewhere else I wanted to go. By all reports of the state of those coaches, boy, did I do the right thing!
Okay, *some* parts of our public transport system are okay most of the time; but the system as a whole is *very* far gone from universally "great".
Why Not Train People 4074On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:18:08 +0100, Robert Briggs Glad to hear it. Does that include the timorous that don't even try because they know...
It wouldn't have a positive effect on *all* parts of the economy, if only because there would be less need for auto repairers and the like.
That said, the less you have to spend on fixing the car the more you have left to spend on other things.
Had fight with gfriend over LLBingI agree with you 100%. The left lane is for pbutting. The right lane is for cruising. Nothing irritates me more than some idiot puttering along 5 miles...
It actually costs quite a lot to run a car, even with the low price of petrol in the US.
IMNSHO, training should be *mandatory* for all new drivers. It need not be particularly formal (I learnt primarily by driving my father, who was a rural general pracbreastioner, on his rounds for a few months and had one lesson with a driving instructor), but there *should* be a decent test at the end of it.
It is perhaps not politically acceptable to make a proper driving test mandatory for existing fully-licenced drivers (my father, for example, started driving before tests were introduced), but it *should* be required before anyone who is disqualified from driving by the courts is fully relicenced (and training and a test could be permitted *once* as an alternative to a short-term disqualification).
