{"id":618024,"date":"2026-08-03T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/618024\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:24:13","slug":"should-automatic-drivers-be-able-to-convert-their-licence-to-manual-without-retesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/618024\/","title":{"rendered":"Should automatic drivers be able to convert their licence to manual without retesting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE AA HAS suggested in the UK that drivers who pass automatic driving tests should be allowed to drive manual cars if they complete a one-hour conversion session.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, motorists who pass a driving test in the UK in an automatic car are only permitted to drive automatics.<\/p>\n<p>The same is true in Ireland: if your driving licence is for automatic cars only, you need to pass the driver\u2019s test again in a manual car in order to get a licence that permits you to drive manual cars.<\/p>\n<p>AA president Edmund King has said that automatic drivers shouldn\u2019t have to wait months for a manual driving test appointment and should instead be able to upgrade their licence by completing a one-hour conversion lesson with a driving school.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think:\u00a0Should automatic drivers be able to convert their licence to manual without retesting?<\/p>\n<p>\n  Poll Results:<\/p>\n<p>No, they should have to take the test again in a manual car (1086)<\/p>\n<p>Yes, a lesson should be enough (695)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know\/no opinion (63)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE AA HAS suggested in the UK that drivers who pass automatic driving tests should be allowed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,7931,13593],"class_list":["post-618024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-poll","tag-the-daily-poll"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117031329309812097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}