I need to pass my driving test before 1st of next month....Eeek! Is this possible?

FreddieFrugal

Cubanista wrote: »

they don't need to go back and take another theory test because their driving licence needed renewing.

Shhh! Don't give the DVLA ideas!

tykesi

Cubanista wrote: »

I just take issue with the theory test lasting 2 years. I think it's a rip off to keep charging people every couple years when the theory test is up.


I know people who've passed their test but haven't drove [sic] for years, then get a car and start driving again, they don't need to go back and take another theory test because their driving licence needed renewing.

Of course you take issue of it because you've fallen foul of the rule, I'm sure if you had passed your practical and never had to take the theory again you wouldn't have a problem with the system.

It's there for safety and to ensure that you have the required theory of driving before getting into a ton or so of metal and being let loose on the public. Whether you agree with it or not is irrelevant.

Car_54

tykesi wrote: »

Of course you take issue of it because you've fallen foul of the rule, I'm sure if you had passed your practical and never had to take the theory again you wouldn't have a problem with the system.

It's there for safety and to ensure that you have the required theory of driving before getting into a ton or so of metal and being let loose on the public. Whether you agree with it or not is irrelevant.

Agreed.

Also, if it was just a rip-off they wouldn't have reduced the price twice recently ...

Cubanista

tykesi wrote: »

Of course you take issue of it because you've fallen foul of the rule, I'm sure if you had passed your practical and never had to take the theory again you wouldn't have a problem with the system.

It's there for safety and to ensure that you have the required theory of driving before getting into a ton or so of metal and being let loose on the public. Whether you agree with it or not is irrelevant.

Theory goes out the window as soon as people start driving anyway. It's irritating knowing i haven't passed my test, then seeing so many useless drivers on the road these days.

Stoke

FreddieFrugal wrote: »

You check mirrors if you're planning to decelerate surely. You should indeed also just make sure you're aware of what's going on around you before you accelerate as well, in case from behind a motorbike is just about to do an overtake for instance.

Also checking your mirror means a quick second eye movement up to it, then back down again. Unless someone is especially dim witted I'd hope no one actually needs to stare behind them to work out what's going on. If they do they shouldn't be driving!

I know what you're saying and I'm not suggesting staring blankly in the mirror lol. I was just saying at the time, I thought it was a bizarre rule by my instructor. I do check my mirrors very often though, both my side mirrors and my rear one. It's essential you know what is going on around you, as you say, in case a motorbike comes overtaking you.

Cubanista

Car_54 wrote: »

Agreed.

Also, if it was just a rip-off they wouldn't have reduced the price twice recently ...

By the way, thanks for the heads up. I didn't realise the theory test had been reduced. I guess that's one positive.

Stoke

Cubanista wrote: »

Theory goes out the window as soon as people start driving anyway. It's irritating knowing i haven't passed my test, then seeing so many useless drivers on the road these days.

Erm, I'm not sure I agree with that. I think some of the questions on the theory test are pretty daft, but knowing stuff like stopping distances can actually save your life, hard as it may be to believe.

Cubanista

Car_54 wrote: »

I'd also advise just doing the theory again. Believe it or not, the price of the theory test has actually come down! (Now £23).

You don't need a new disk, there's loads of free stuff on the internet.

How are you sure i won't need a new disk? Where would i find the free stuff?

Norman_Castle

Cubanista wrote: »

How are you sure i won't need a new disk? Where would i find the free stuff?

Have you tried looking?.

bowlhead99

Stoke wrote: »

Erm, I'm not sure I agree with that. I think some of the questions on the theory test are pretty daft, but knowing stuff like stopping distances can actually save your life, hard as it may be to believe.

That's a bad example though, because whenever I've needed to hit the brakes hard from a high speed, I haven't been thinking that at 50mph I will need 38 metres to stop after I've completed my thinking time.

Nobody needs to know the numbers, which were probably concocted five decades ago in a Ford Anglia - I know my car with modern brakes and tyres would stop quicker than any of the figures in the book even though it's getting on for two tonnes. Knowing the figures so that you can parrot them back is not going to save your life. It's simply the general concepts that wet takes longer than dry, and that higher speed requires exponentially more braking time than lower speed, which stand you in good stead for the practical aspect of driving safely.

It would certainly be more useful to be able to describe to your driving tester - during a practical test - how much space you need to stop from x mph, and then demonstrate that you were right... than to be able to parrot back a number of metres or feet from the tables for a given speed and correctly pick out 315 feet instead of 415 feet or 118 feet in a multiple-choice test for the 70mph stopping distance.