Learner Drivers - Please sign

[DarkJager]

http://www.petitiononline.com/od404850/petition.html

And for the qualified drivers out there, keep your opinions to the other threads.

[Bluefoam]

I was prepared to sign until I read this bit:

It is clear that Noel Dempsey is unfit to hold this position any longer and we ask for his immediate removal from office.

Now, I just think that whoever created this petition is a tosser...

[Mr E]

Good luck DarkJager, but with signatures from Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and Hannibal Lecter, its going to be hard to take it seriously.

[RuggieBear]

Pass the test

[Placebo]

thanks for that deep insight their ruggie bear il let you know in 5 months exactly, until then cya later.

[RuggieBear]

i'm a learner and i've always thought it insane that one only needs a provisional to start driving legally.

Can't pass the test you shouldn't be driving...you are not competent enough for the road. Stick with the driving lessons until you are capable.

[Placebo]

Originally Posted by RuggieBear

i'm a learner and i've always thought it insane that one only needs a provisional to start driving legally.

Can't pass the test you shouldn't be driving...you are not competent enough for the road. Stick with the driving lessons until you are capable.

once again, thanks for the lecture and the colorful assumption, i have NOT failed any test of any sort [ever] so that does not apply to me in any shape or form. Petition is not directed specifically at the law, theres other factors here, such as the long waiting list which inturn makes the enforcement seem unreasonable.

[Keith C]

Originally Posted by RuggieBear

i'm a learner and i've always thought it insane that one only needs a provisional to start driving legally.

Can't pass the test you shouldn't be driving...you are not competent enough for the road. Stick with the driving lessons until you are capable.

So have you applied for your test? if you fail will you stop driving?

[Anan1]

Originally Posted by DarkJager

And for the qualified drivers out there, keep your opinions to the other threads.

This may not have occurred to you, but a bunch of unlicensed, untested drivers on the road impacts on me. Your rights end where my safety begins.

[RuggieBear]

Originally Posted by Keith C

So have you applied for your test? if you fail will you stop driving?

nope...i'm no where near competent enough to pass yet. I'll keep taking lessons till my instructor thinks i'm safe on the roads and that i won't kill anyone.

Then i'll take the test....be it a year or 10 years.

Driving isn't a right.

[Placebo]

Originally Posted by RuggieBear

nope...i'm no where near competent enough to pass yet. I'll keep taking lessons till my instructor thinks i'm safe on the roads and that i won't kill anyone.

Then i'll take the test....be it a year or 10 years.

Taking your age into account, lets say for instance you get married soon, what impact do you think this will have on your wife and kids? My dad lives abroad and my mom has failed twice, shes a fairly competent driver but gets nervous when shes being tested, now she cant drive, neither can my sister, neither can i and we are all competent drivers, i think no one has a problem with the law but the waiting list in hand, which is what it was 2/3 years ago as far as i can remember.

[DarkJager]

Originally Posted by Anan1

This may not have occurred to you, but a bunch of unlicensed, untested drivers on the road impacts on me. Your rights end where my safety begins.

What makes you think you're such a safe driver??? I'm a learner and I take extreme care to follow every single rule of the road when I am in my car. I don't peform any maneuevers or actions that could endanger other users of the road. But from what I've seen, it doesn't work that way with licensed drivers. You must think that little pink slips gives you the right to drive however you want, and then point the finger at learners for dangerous driving?? Get off your high horse kiddo...

[Leeby]

I agree with the idea but 5 days notice is ridiculous, I'm on the waiting list at the moment, what am I supposed to do between 5 days from now and the actual test? I don't live with any fully licensed drivers.

[RuggieBear]

Originally Posted by Placebo

Taking your age into account, lets say for instance you get married soon, what impact do you think this will have on your wife and kids? My dad lives abroad and my mom has failed twice, shes a fairly competent driver but gets nervous when shes being tested, now she cant drive, neither can my sister, neither can i and we are all competent drivers, i think no one has a problem with the law but the waiting list in hand is what it was 2/3 years ago as far as i can remember.

My potential wife can drive. (full licence )
Just because it will (seriously) inconvenience you and your family doesn't give you the right to drive and potentially endanger others on the road.

besides, do you really think this is enforceable in this country....Are you seriously going to stop driving unaccompanied?

We are a country of Me Feiners....and we will continue to have ****e drivers, inexperienced drivers and lots of accidents as so many people are too self absorbed not to put others at risk every time they get in a car.

[Anan1]

Originally Posted by DarkJager

What makes you think you're such a safe driver??? I'm a learner and I take extreme care to follow every single rule of the road when I am in my car. I don't peform any maneuevers or actions that could endanger other users of the road. But from what I've seen, it doesn't work that way with licensed drivers. You must think that little pink slips gives you the right to drive however you want, and then point the finger at learners for dangerous driving?? Get off your high horse kiddo...

The simple fact is that i've passed the test whereas you haven't. Talk is cheap, but you have yet to prove yourself fit to drive unaccompanied on public roads.