> It could mean new drivers being asked to wait 28 days before booking another driving test if they fail.
>This would see the current wait of 10 working days after a test failure being extended by 18 days.
Wow, that’s assuming people can rebook that quickly.
Unsurprisingly nothing in the article supports the claim that a test failure is or will be punished.
You can take part in a consultation on this on the DVSA site.
I think most of these are shitty ideas to cover up cracks in the system.
Pretty long waits for a test anyway, I wonder how quickly people who fail get on the case of rebooking as it is. When they attempt to book isn’t really of that much concern if a wait is months anyway, not really much of a punishment. I was kind of hoping they’d make it so people can’t just keep booking tests then pass on their twelfth attempt as there is clearly something fundamentally wrong with people who need that much to get them driving properly.
When I was a lad, in the good old days. I screwed up my driving test applications. I made two applications, they should have been about a month apart. In case I failed the first test there would be a backup test. If I passed I could cancel the second event and receive a refund cheque.
Instead they were five days apart. The first on a Monday and the second on Friday.
I failed the Monday test and passed it Friday afternoon.
No. They should stop wasting time and make every car driver take a day course every 2 years. Like how a CBT works on a motorbike. The amount of drivers who have no clue how to drive, self awareness, basic knowledge is scary.
Make it a free course, I don’t know.
Does nothing to address those who’ve already got a licence and get steadily worse over time.
Or, you know, those drivers who run over pedestrians and cyclists leaving them with life-changing injuries, and walk away from court with six points and a £350 fine.
Should be Max 3 tries or you are deemed ‘incapable’ 🙂
I don’t get why people are so up in arms about this, it’s a common practice around most of European countries. It gives you more time to better assess what you don’t wrong and be better prepared next time, maybe even get some extra hours in.
You’re already being punished for failing by having to pay 80 million pounds to do lessons and take the test again
Firstly, the rise in applications is due, possibly, to the absolutely fucking dire state of public transport, mainly outside of London. My GF used to catch a bus to work – it’s 5 miles – the service was cut and replaced with one at 5.50am, which would get her to work 3 hours early. She could wait for the next one at 9.50am, but that gets her to work an hour late. She now walks.
After the government cuts to the subsidy in this area of 400k, nearly all the useful routes were cut, probably to make it fail far harder, because, if nobody is using the service(s), they can cut it completely, and thus, save money. My guess is that the figures would show that the “morning” routes have hardly anyone on them, and would fit the criteria to allow them to be cut.
Couple that with the fact that it’s ridiculously expensive (got the bus the 2 miles back from a pub the other night and it was £6.40 – had I known before I got on, I would have staggered), and it’s no wonder that more people are applying for a driving test – even while being told that everyone is working from home.
There’s probably cuts all over the DVSA as well, resulting in a lack of staff. Rather than fix the issues, it seems that they would rather change the rules to make it harder, and cut the levels down.
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> It could mean new drivers being asked to wait 28 days before booking another driving test if they fail.
>This would see the current wait of 10 working days after a test failure being extended by 18 days.
Wow, that’s assuming people can rebook that quickly.
Unsurprisingly nothing in the article supports the claim that a test failure is or will be punished.
You can take part in a consultation on this on the DVSA site.
I think most of these are shitty ideas to cover up cracks in the system.
Pretty long waits for a test anyway, I wonder how quickly people who fail get on the case of rebooking as it is. When they attempt to book isn’t really of that much concern if a wait is months anyway, not really much of a punishment. I was kind of hoping they’d make it so people can’t just keep booking tests then pass on their twelfth attempt as there is clearly something fundamentally wrong with people who need that much to get them driving properly.
When I was a lad, in the good old days. I screwed up my driving test applications. I made two applications, they should have been about a month apart. In case I failed the first test there would be a backup test. If I passed I could cancel the second event and receive a refund cheque.
Instead they were five days apart. The first on a Monday and the second on Friday.
I failed the Monday test and passed it Friday afternoon.
No. They should stop wasting time and make every car driver take a day course every 2 years. Like how a CBT works on a motorbike. The amount of drivers who have no clue how to drive, self awareness, basic knowledge is scary.
Make it a free course, I don’t know.
Does nothing to address those who’ve already got a licence and get steadily worse over time.
Or, you know, those drivers who run over pedestrians and cyclists leaving them with life-changing injuries, and walk away from court with six points and a £350 fine.
Should be Max 3 tries or you are deemed ‘incapable’ 🙂
I don’t get why people are so up in arms about this, it’s a common practice around most of European countries. It gives you more time to better assess what you don’t wrong and be better prepared next time, maybe even get some extra hours in.
You’re already being punished for failing by having to pay 80 million pounds to do lessons and take the test again
Firstly, the rise in applications is due, possibly, to the absolutely fucking dire state of public transport, mainly outside of London. My GF used to catch a bus to work – it’s 5 miles – the service was cut and replaced with one at 5.50am, which would get her to work 3 hours early. She could wait for the next one at 9.50am, but that gets her to work an hour late. She now walks.
After the government cuts to the subsidy in this area of 400k, nearly all the useful routes were cut, probably to make it fail far harder, because, if nobody is using the service(s), they can cut it completely, and thus, save money. My guess is that the figures would show that the “morning” routes have hardly anyone on them, and would fit the criteria to allow them to be cut.
Couple that with the fact that it’s ridiculously expensive (got the bus the 2 miles back from a pub the other night and it was £6.40 – had I known before I got on, I would have staggered), and it’s no wonder that more people are applying for a driving test – even while being told that everyone is working from home.
There’s probably cuts all over the DVSA as well, resulting in a lack of staff. Rather than fix the issues, it seems that they would rather change the rules to make it harder, and cut the levels down.
We call this “papering over the cracks”.