Driving test changes - 4th December

fredandwilma

Ministers have announced four changes to the current test which will come into force on 4 December.

Learner drivers will have to be able to follow directions from a sat nav and drive into a parking space to pass their test.

Disabled Motoring UK also supports the changes because many disabled drivers use sat navs regularly.

There seems to be a focus on using sat navs?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39594852

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/driving-test-changes-4-december-2017

chrisw

fredandwilma wrote: »

Disabled Motoring UK also supports the changes because many disabled drivers use sat navs regularly.

Does being a disabled driver mean lacking in sense of direction???

RichardD1970

fredandwilma wrote: »

Ministers have announced four changes to the current test which will come into force on 4 December.

Learner drivers will have to be able to follow directions from a sat nav and drive into a parking space to pass their test.

Disabled Motoring UK also supports the changes because many disabled drivers use sat navs regularly.

There seems to be a focus on using sat navs?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39594852

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/driving-test-changes-4-december-2017

Not really, only one of the four changes involves using a satnav and then 1 in 5 test won't include it and you will have to follow road signs instead.

I don't think the changes go far enough, it needs a complete overhaul.

Muscle750

which is very useful when some plank with a shovel has dug a big hole in the road and you got to go on a de tour..............please make a U turn when possible etc

Car_54

Muscle750 wrote: »

which is very useful when some plank with a shovel has dug a big hole in the road and you got to go on a de tour..............please make a U turn when possible etc

How is that different from the current test?

victor2

fredandwilma wrote: »

Disabled Motoring UK also supports the changes because many disabled drivers use sat navs regularly.

There seems to be a focus on using sat navs?

Many drivers who are not registered as disabled use sat navs regularly too.
It makes sense to bring it into the driving test, if only to highlight that if the road your sat nav is telling you to take appears to go straight into a field of cows, it probably does.
Replacing reversing round a corner with reversing into or out of a car park space makes sense too. Who reverses round a corner like you do for a driving test, once you've passed?

BeenThroughItAll

victor2 wrote: »

Many drivers who are not registered as disabled use sat navs regularly too.
It makes sense to bring it into the driving test, if only to highlight that if the road your sat nav is telling you to take appears to go straight into a field of cows, it probably does.
Replacing reversing round a corner with reversing into or out of a car park space makes sense too. Who reverses round a corner like you do for a driving test, once you've passed?

I reversed round a corner on Wednesday morning.

I also reversed round a corner in my motorhome yesterday.

iolanthe07

Who reverses round a corner like you do for a driving test, once you've passed?

No one, probably, but isn't the point of that test to see whether you can control the car accurately when driving in reverse?

Car_54

iolanthe07 wrote: »

Who reverses round a corner like you do for a driving test, once you've passed?

No one, probably, but isn't the point of that test to see whether you can control the car accurately when driving in reverse?

... and, more importantly, safely.

facade

victor2 wrote: »

Replacing reversing round a corner with reversing into or out of a car park space makes sense too. Who reverses round a corner like you do for a driving test, once you've passed?

Expect a rise in insurance premiums then :eek:

At least when a nervous learner on their test reverses round a corner they usually only hit the kerb, now they can take the corner off a parked car instead

unforeseen

I can see the younger drivers having a problem with the sat-nav bit. If they are under 21 they hate to be told what to do. ��