A nice story here for the pessimists out there. This story on Autoblog (and on the BBC) reports that the number of 17-25 year olds taking their tests fell by nearly 20% last year (overall tests were down by 13%).
The DSA said the reasons weren’t clear-cut.
Personally, I’m happy to go with the idea that we’re in a recession and people are having to hold back with their spending. I see an increasing number of people who can’t easily afford the lessons, but who are desperate to get a licence for work. It follows that there must be a lot more people out there who I don’t see at all who aren’t learning to drive at all!
All of this is in fulfilment of an ancient Mayan prophecy about the end of the world – a prophecy which kicks in every time something ADIs don’t like happens.
Having said all that, I’m happy that my diary has been overflowing up until late June or early July this year. It did go a bit quiet for a few weeks (students gone home, holiday season upon us) but it’s picking up again now. It does this at this time of year (most years).