Compulsory re-testing for over 65's

[lewisdmz]

IMO, It's the initial test that's the issue. I overtook a car in one of my lessons and the instructor went absolutely f*cking mental at me. Why? it was easily the safest and easiest overtake I have ever completed in damn near 4 years of driving..

But the nanny state we live in means people are TAUGHT to drive everywhere slowly and spending too much time looking at the speedometer/what's behind them. Anyone with eyes can see if there's anything behind them, why make special effort to look every ten seconds?? And speed limits? Don't get me started. I drive to college through a 30 limit that has cameras. If a kid wandered out on the road in front of the camera, the chance of me hitting them is 100000x more than if there was no camera. Why? cos I'm looking at the speedometer.

I agree that we should have compulsory skid pan, advanced driving, night and motorway lessons, but the main problem IMO is that the instructors are too focussed on getting you through your test. I remember my instructor saying to me that "you do a lot of driving outside of lessons don't you? Cos you're picking up some habits. Just concentrate on the proper way until you've passed your test, then you can learn to drive properly." WHAT THE f*ck? I'M HAVING f*cking LESSONS SO I CAN LEARN HOW TO f*cking DRIVE, IF I CAN DRIVE I'LL PASS THE TEST!! IF NOT, WHY THE f*ck AM I ALLOWED TO DRIVE A CAR?!

Anyway.... yeah, retests every 10 years would be a great way of sorting the frankly appalling driving in this country, but first of all we need to sort out what we're teaching new drivers.

Complains about nanny state...

Suggests we have to take a test every 10 years or lose your licence...