And now, recent research is suggesting that learner drivers are taking the practical driving test too early, in fact, 90% of learner drivers! Basically, the claim is that only 10% of learner drivers are taking the recommended amount of driving lessons before the driving test. Based on the average prices, 40 hours of tuition is worth over \u00a3900, which is not including the cost of taking the theory and practical driving tests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Absolute nonsense, and yet another example of someone who doesn\u2019t understand statistics – but talks about them anyway. That figure of 40 hours is NOT a \u201crecommended amount\u201d of hours – it\u2019s the average number people who pass their tests have actually taken, and therefore includes those who do it quicker than average as well as those who take longer. The author of the article ought to look up the word \u201caverage\u201d and try to understand it before using it again.<\/p>\n
Personally, I would like nothing more than for there to be a minimum number of hours professional training required before someone is allowed to take their driving test. Unfortunately, that isn\u2019t the case – and it isn\u2019t likely to be anytime soon. Even if they did impose a minimum number of lessons required, they simply wouldn\u2019t dare make it as high as 40!<\/p>\n
I would also like every learner to be a bottomless pit when it comes to having enough money to take lessons. Unfortunately, that isn\u2019t the case either.<\/p>\n
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You can\u2019t fluke your way through the driving test – you\u2019re either good enough to pass it or you\u2019re not. The only thing that the test doesn\u2019t evaluate is experience, and it never has done.<\/p>\n
People say that driving today is a lot different to what it was 20 or 30 years ago. Part of me wants to shout \u201cbollocks\u201d to that – in fact, part of me will<\/strong> shout \u201cbollocks\u201d, because I know what they are getting at when they say it. In actual fact, driving today isn\u2019t<\/strong> much different to what it was 20-odd years ago. There\u2019s more traffic, and other drivers are bigger arseholes, but that\u2019s about it. You still steer a car using a steering wheel, and there are still three pedals on the floor (or two if you\u2019re in an automatic). They still use tarmac on the roads, and lanes have things called \u201cwhite lines\u201d between them. Apart from what you keep reading about the Google driverless car, we\u2019re nowhere near having them out there alongside us yet, and cars still only employ two dimensions when travelling – not three, like in Blade Runner.<\/p>\n The bottom line is that – give or take one or two over the years – all<\/strong> of my pupils take their tests when they\u2019re ready. If one is ready in less than 20 hours, then I will not stop them. Yes, there are some people out there – often immigrants desperate for licences, but not smart enough to realise how much extra it is costing them doing it their way – who take test after test but no formal lessons. But it sure as hell isn\u2019t 90% of all learners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This story came in on the newsfeed. The title gives the impression that it is gong to be a learned discussion on whether or not learner drivers take their tests too early – but it isn\u2019t any such thing. The entire article is based on the single premise that if the national average number of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86,87,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-news","category-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}