Personally, I feel very confident in saying that 95% of drivers currently on the road should NOT be. People do not take the right to driving seriously I'm afraid. You should be lucky that I don't make the decisions - I'd be lifting the minimum age for a drivers licence to 21, and making them do a advanced road safety course as well. In most European countries, it is far harder to get a drivers licence than here. There are simply far too many idiots on our roads. And these idiots are so self centered that they care for no one else other than their own greedy little selves. I know there are good drivers out there, don't get me wrong, but they are an extreme minority imho.
Dave
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Sure, it is very much a case of "you don't know what you don't know" but
if there is only one way to get experience....
The son was an albeit newly licenced driver, but licenced none the less.
I taught both my kids how to drive, manual transmission, I was hard on them but they both passed first go. I would have been happy for them to drive me home (in fact I think they both did!)
I find it laughable that kids now have to spend more hours in a car (in NSW) to get their "P's" than it takes to get a private pilot's licence.
Ergo, shouldn't we also be seeing a spate of young men and women crashing light aircraft all across the country?
I suspect the problem is a cultural and attitudinal one rather than lack of driving skill....but the dopes in Macquarie street legislate, again, and again, and again.....
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