We have talked and written a lot in the last six months about all the reasons for Driving Test Delays, of which there are many! It would make interesting reading to set up a questionnaire for the Public to see what the perception actually is.Depending on which sector one happens to belong to, the results would be stark in their emphasis.(1) If you belong to the Mature Adult Sector then assuming you have been driving since your early twenties you will have built up a very substantial memory bank of situations, experiences and horror stories that will affect your opinion. You will no doubt be concerned that we have(a) no real incentive to progress beyond a Provisional Licence unless forced to, or (b) that today's new young drivers seem to think that learning sufficient to "Pass the Test "is quite enough driver education thank-you!(2) If you belong to the Middle Group of Drivers with say ten or more years under your belts(!) then you may be either totally unconcerned about the level of unsupervised Learner Drivers milling around ,until they run into you that is! Or you might perhaps take a more mature approach and blame it all on the plethora of Government Departments all vying for a piece of the Public Relations Pie who talk, huff and puff, set up enquiries, invent new Authorities and then dump them, and so on and so on.(3) If you belong to the New /Younger age group of Learner Drivers then you are likely to be of the opinion that it is your God-given right to have a Driving Licence whether you have had any Driving Lessons or not; whether you have passed your Driving Test or not; just so that you can get around, impress your friends and generally be cool! Driving Test requirements are not any where near your top five Agendas …sure why would they be when you rarely are stopped by the Gardai for using a phone while driving; for carrying too many passengers home from a Party (this is a really cools scene incidentally); for displaying NO L Plates (even a week from your Driving Test) and so on…(4) SUMMARY …We are all responsible for the Huge Delays in the Driving Test appointment system (if you can call it that) and since the numbers of new drivers going on the road is just going to increase exponentially for the next few years I believe that the first starting point to reducing the wait to a more acceptable 8 weeks or so is with, wait for it....Driver Education:Compulsory Lessons…Mandatory number of hours accompanied by Professional Instructors( who should be Professionally Accredited and Monitored)…Minimum number of Lessons before being allowed to sit the Driving Test… and Minimum number of hours tuition before driving unaccompanied(IE Zero).
Parents should take the inculcating of Driving Skills to their offspring very seriously which means Lessons from an Accredited Driving School first and then practise with Mum or Dad second …not the other way round.Here are the current figures recently released:-(1) Provisional License holders 2005 = 404,607(2) Increase in Provisional License holders 2005 =25,000(3) Numbers on First Provisional License 2005 =206,160(4) Numbers waiting for a Driving Test 2005 =127,065(5) Average waiting Times 2005 = 42 weeks!If more Drivers were to take a suitable number of Professional Lessons then the first -time Pass rate would be much higher leading to the shortening of the waiting list which is chock full of drivers sitting their Test for the second or third time or more. It's just part of the Equation …if all the various aspects were addressed with some sincerity then we would (will?) bring the sad situation under control in a year or two If we don't then things will continue to deteriorate until our accident rate becomes the butt of Jokes Worldwide and not just in our cosy Euro Zone!Astral Driving School, Limerick.Ireland is concerned about all the issues facing Drivers today whether they are young or old (like the Author)and believes it to be an obligation to pass on the fruits of a forty -year Driving Career to perhaps ease the pain and heartache that so many Families are facing.Robin Piggott is the webmaster of Astral Driving School and the chief author of the two Driving Test and Learner Driver Blogs.Have a look you could learn something new!http://astraldrivingschool.blogs.ie =Motorvating Blog.http://www.astralmotoring.ie
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