{"id":5206,"date":"2011-03-01T18:19:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T18:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5206"},"modified":"2022-11-16T13:53:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:53:09","slug":"iq-test-required-to-get-a-driving-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5206","title":{"rendered":"IQ Test Required To Get A Driving Licence?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think this might be a little tongue-in-cheek judging from some of the stories on there [<em>link removed, as now dead<\/em>], but wouldn&#8217;t it be good if it were true and spread over to the UK?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In an effort to make driving less of a headache, the State of Colorado passed a law requiring an IQ exam as part of the driving test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to obtain a drivers license in the State of Colorado, and IQ of at least 120 is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe find that many traffic incidents and traffic jams are caused by sheer stupidity,\u201d said El Paso County Sherriff Terry Maketa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawmakers decided that if there were fewer stupid people on the road, there would be fewer stupidity-related incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI just want to be able to go skiing without hitting traffic caused by idiots who don\u2019t know how to drive,\u201d commented Representative Doug Lamborn.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It made me smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> What IQ is required to get a driving licence? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone found the blog on that term (the spelling suggests it was an American query). Unfortunately, anything down to 0 (zero) is sufficient from what I&#8217;ve seen in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In America, I think negative numbers are allowed. And in some states, as long as you carry a spare pack of Pampers (diapers) in the boot (trunk) age isn&#8217;t a restriction, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4532794719633406\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this might be a little tongue-in-cheek judging from some of the stories on there [link removed, as now dead], but wouldn&#8217;t it be good if it were true and spread over to the UK? In an effort to make driving less of a headache, the State of Colorado passed a law requiring an [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,81,99,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-driving-test-related","category-funny-related","category-world-related"],"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\/5206","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=5206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}