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A nice story here for the pessimists out there. This story on Autoblog<\/a> (and on the BBC<\/a>) reports that the number of 17-25 year olds taking their tests fell by nearly 20% last year (overall tests were down by 13%).<\/p>\n The DSA said the reasons weren’t clear-cut.<\/p>\n 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!<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/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":[80,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news"],"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\/6716","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=6716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}