DFT driving test consultation

[Jmoan]

It's aimed at changing the car driving test and a few other things but it would be another opportunity to put forward concerns about motorcycles.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/a-driving-test-fit-for-the-21st-century

[stinkwheel]

So. They want to introduce a lower test fee with a high refundable deposit on passing your test.

And 79% of people fail first time.

Spin it that it's cheaper to do your test.

Sounds like a wizard wheeze there.

Can I be the first to coin the phrase "fail fine".
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[Rogerborg]

Indeed, let's play the "what have they already decided?" game.

Looks like:

Reduce the number of tests by penalising failure[*].
Reduce the number of examiners.
Sell off test centres and start tests from Halfords.

No mention of motorcycles, but I wonder if selling off test centres and reducing the number of tests will raise the issue of a single on-road test for bikes again.

Mike "the bike" Penning had a go at reintroducing it by sodding off the 50kph (>30mph) minimum speed for the weave and stop in mod 1. But the Sir Humphreys blocked the trimming of their empire by bawwwing that putting cones down on the road (why?) was such danger, very ow-my-back for examiners.

[*] And remember, while the DVSA will of course fairly and impartially consider your complaint about how your test is conducted, they will under no circumstances accept, comment on, or review audio or video footage provided by a test candidate or third party to facilitate a challenge to the conduct of any theory or practical test or its result. Because they wouldn't want to make a decision based on facts.
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[Jmoan]

That would probably explain why there were rumours about wanting to frisk people taking the theory test.

[Rob Fzs]

I replied by telling them to fuck tests center's and examiners off altogether and having a points based system of aptitude over a few weeks ran by training center's themselves, to make sure the candidate can actually drive properly and not just pass on a fluke which alot of people do

Certainly fuck the examiners off who strike every other Wednesday while they do sweet fa anyway, fuck waiting lists off and sell all the test center's

Hopefully with more tory cuts there will be less cretins to think up religious testing regimes in the public sector
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