{"id":14046,"date":"2013-10-11T00:34:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T23:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14046"},"modified":"2013-10-11T00:34:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T23:34:23","slug":"a-rise-in-the-minimum-age-for-the-driving-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14046","title":{"rendered":"A Rise In The Minimum Age For The Driving Test?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll believe it when I see it \u2013 but since they have (so far) <a title=\"No More Foreign Language Theory Or Practical Driving Tests\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decided to stop non-English tests<\/a>, anything is possible. This <a title=\"Driving test age rise considered for teenagers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-24485792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC story reports that teenagers<\/a> could have to wait \u201ca year longer\u201d before being able to take their driving tests.<\/p>\n<p>Much of it is a rehash of what has been said before. However, it is worth taking a look at the <a title=\"Novice drivers: Evidence review and Evaluation Pre-driver training, Graduated Driver Licensing\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/249282\/novice-driver-research-findings.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TRL paper it\u2019s based on<\/a>, because that is quite new and it outlines all the proposals to be considered. I just wish they\u2019d talk in English instead of convoluted gov-speak. Attempting to sift out the important bits, we have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>graduated driving licence<\/li>\n<li>minimum learning period<\/li>\n<li>mandatory daytime and night time lessons<\/li>\n<li>mandatory training log book<\/li>\n<li>12-month probationary licence on passing the test at age 18+<\/li>\n<li>mandatory P plates during probationary period<\/li>\n<li>night time 10pm-5pm curfew unless accompanied by someone 30+ years old<\/li>\n<li>ban on carrying passengers under age 30<\/li>\n<li>lower alcohol limit<\/li>\n<li>ban on use of mobile phones (including hands-free)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope they get off their arses and do something before we all die of old age!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll believe it when I see it \u2013 but since they have (so far) decided to stop non-English tests, anything is possible. This BBC story reports that teenagers could have to wait \u201ca year longer\u201d before being able to take their driving tests. Much of it is a rehash of what has been said before. [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86,81,85,87,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-driving-test-related","category-dsa-related","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\/14046","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=14046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}