topic Re: learning to drive in Community Spirit

learning to drive

esayaf — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 22:16:00 GMT

Why do successive state governments continue to ignore the blatantly obvious fact that while parents with.poor driving skills continue to "educate" their children on how to drive.
Any other position held by a person that teaches someone how to do something requires a formal qualification.
Then to cap it off the testing to achieve one's licence is way too inadequate.

Re: learning to drive

village_person — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 22:47:47 GMT

@esayaf wrote:
Why do successive state governments continue to ignore the blatantly obvious fact that while parents with.poor driving skills continue to "educate" their children on how to drive.
Any other position held by a person that teaches someone how to do something requires a formal qualification.
Then to cap it off the testing to achieve one's licence is way too inadequate.

I don't agree that parents have poor driving skills. True, some do but there are some very good drivers in the parent category.

I think it's lunacy that people are allowed to do their driving knowledge test in any language other than Enlish. Also it is lunacy that a certain quota of drivers who are perhaps borderline are given a pass.

Re: learning to drive

lurker172602 — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 23:17:44 GMT

How is driving in English different from driving in Italian? Apart from the hand gestures that is.

Re: learning to drive

village_person — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 23:21:10 GMT

@lurker172602 wrote:
How is driving in English different from driving in Italian? Apart from the hand gestures that is.

I think the knowledge test is different. After a new arrival fails to squeeze up your exhaust pipe and you pull over to exchange details how do you explain that he or she must produce a licence? When two lanes merge how does a new arrival know who must yield?

Re: learning to drive

debra9275 — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 23:32:03 GMT

hi esayaf

I think most parents teach their kids the basics and help them get up the hours, then top it off with professional driving lessons. A lot of the recent accidents have been due to inexperience and some of the young people were alcohol and drug affected. That is a big worry

Re: learning to drive

opmania — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:01:30 GMT

I agree that anyone who has not held a license

In the past should be required to take the test in English.

Unless you have a basic knowledge of a language,

How could you possibly know what the many different

Roads signs not mentioned in the learners manual

Are advising. In the case of someone previously having

An international drivers licence, they have previous

driving experience and have knowledge of the finer

Details of driving.

If you do not speak English and take the test, then

You could not possibly be aware of factors involving

Coutesy , response and overting accidents etc

Re: learning to drive

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 01:09:30 GMT

@lurker172602 wrote:
How is driving in English different from driving in Italian? Apart from the hand gestures that is.

they're talking about the knowledge (theory)

test not driving (practical)

Re: learning to drive

lurker172602 — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 01:11:28 GMT

The OP wasn't

Re: learning to drive

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 01:12:34 GMT

I don't agree that parents have poor driving skills. True, some do but there are some very good drivers in the parent category.

yes and learning how to drive

usually involves both parents and

qualified instructors.

Re: learning to drive

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 01:15:26 GMT

@lurker172602 wrote:
The OP wasn't

i thought you were replying to

village person who mentioned the

english language test.

Re: learning to drive

amber-eyed-girl — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 02:57:53 GMT

I think it is very much a case of learning good habits from watching your parents drive. If they are good, more chance the kids are. Maybe it should be mandatory to finish off with a professional instructor prior to the test.

Re: learning to drive

collect247 — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 03:05:35 GMT

What are you on about formal qualifications?

A parent wouldn't have a license if they didn't pass the qualifying drivers test now would they.

Re: learning to drive

collect247 — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 03:07:47 GMT

They do have one last driving lesson before a test all my kids did.

Re: learning to drive

amber-eyed-girl — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 04:01:14 GMT

I didn't have to. Neither did my nephew (just done the P plate test). Good your kids did, I think it would pick up anything lacking.

Was it mandatory for your kids or did you just make sure they did?

Re: learning to drive

collect247 — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 04:16:45 GMT

The instructor advises the learner to have that one last lesson just before a test just to have all that needs to be done in a driving test still fresh in the kids memory.

I wish I had it back in my day as I can't remember what I did 5 minutes ago haha.

Re: learning to drive

amber-eyed-girl — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 04:35:04 GMT

OK. That's a professional's tip. I remember being shown how to parallel park for the test. I had to do that first. If you failed that, you didn't get out on the road.

Re: learning to drive

collect247 — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 04:40:22 GMT

I remember I think that I had to do a hill start and if I rolled back to far or hit the gutter I didn't get to drive any further haha

Re: learning to drive

this-one-time-at-bandcamp — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 04:50:11 GMT

When I was in high school in the U.S., we had a school-sponsored drivers' training........2 or 3 instructors. Not that I participated, mind you............

Re: learning to drive

amber-eyed-girl — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 05:02:56 GMT

Here it's offered by some schools, but it's like tennis lessons or something...extras. Mostly up to the parents.