Almost 50% of drivers believe accompanied driver rule should be scrapped

Trampas

when I did my driving test 20 years ago it was a years waiting list. Passed first time and was told before the test the tester usually knows quick enough if you pass or not. If you’re back quickly it’s either a pass or fail. The longer you’re out its boarder line.

Maybe people who lost their license due to penalty points need to resit the test again to get it back.

The Muppet

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121283963#Comment_121283963

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121283964#Comment_121283964

In the 80s all Drivers with their 2nd provisional were given Full licences there was no marked increase in accidents etc. Involving this group. I have no reason to think it would be any different today.

Pinch Flat

Only in Ireland would we think driving a potentially lethal vehicle unlicensed is a good idea. We've for a very strange car culture here

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297014#Comment_121297014

I used to encounter those people all the time and they were a danger to be round. They did not know basic driver eticet and behaved in ways which were not normal. Frequently I had to take corrective measures to avoid them.

Lewis_Benson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297022#Comment_121297022

It's the typical " ah sure he'll be grand, he's only driving 3 weeks but sure he's fine" attitude.

Pinch Flat

Ah sure he needs the car to travel 5km to college

Lewis_Benson

Ah sure them lessons are only a joke, your father is driving the last 50 year and not a bother to him.

Marcusm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297014#Comment_121297014

Show me where the statistics were collated? I don’t believe, given the handwritten fold up licences at the time and the lack of tracking, that there are any such statistics.

galwaytt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297014#Comment_121297014

it was 1979, not the '80s.

I did 2 tests on the same day in 1987, in 2 different categories, one after the other, with the same tester.

SharkMX

At the end of the day driving is one of the easiest tasks you will ever learn to do.

Its the following the rules of the road and the care and attention part that some people dont seem to be able to do. No amount of lessons is going to fix that.