Graduated driving licences

[Punts]

Its reported this morning that the government are not considering graduated driving licences, for cars, as they have in Canada and Australia, as it would be unfair to younger people. We have had a graduated system for motorcycles for years, why not cars?

 

[bud]

Younger people feel invincible in a metal box. 

It is a bit crazy. There are always going to be a few who have money and go out and buy a really powerful car once passing the test.

I suppose all the safety feature on modern cars make it a lot safer.

[RideWithStyles]

Unfair to the young car drivers?
Which ret***** Nob jockey gave that verdict and passed the reason to that?

 

I agree with you both.

its not just buying but a large portion are named driver to big suvs or powerful cars anyway so money that would restrict them to getting access to them isn’t a issue.

sister and brother in-law got run over by a second young drink driver scrote in there parents SUV after the first d1ckhead stacked the car he was driving into parked cars while they were racing around last month.

 

i suspect the real reason will be due to the huge cost (mostly to them), back log and implementing such that they dont want to do it even though statistics will say it should be done but they dont want to rock that boat.

so really as we already knew it being greatly unfair once again to the motorcyclist.

Edited April 8 by RideWithStyles

[Simon Davey]

Graduated for cars would be too logical, and make the roads a little safer.

Although, the flip side is, there will be more illegal young drivers. They want to drive powerful cars, but if they couldn't because of insurance refusals etc, they would drive without insurance and so on.

Besides, it'll all be electric soon, so it may be irrelevant.

[RideWithStyles]

6 minutes ago, Simon Davey said:

Graduated for cars would be too logical, and make the roads a little safer.

Although, the flip side is, there will be more illegal young drivers. They want to drive powerful cars, but if they couldn't because of insurance refusals etc, they would drive without insurance and so on.

Besides, it'll all be electric soon, so it may be irrelevant.

Not quite, electric cars are quite powerful, fast and very quiet so nobody has a chance to avoid them with nobbers at the wheel….

illegal is only if you choose to do so, if there is a similar system to bikes where it can only be so big (class) and so many Hp/KW  restriction that is fair and blanket across the board.

 

Most if not all electric cars now have driver profiles, two way communication between the manufacturer and other parties, tracking and so forth (very much like phones), steering corrections, auto brake…..so to go that little more all of them needs to add face recognition a driver that is attached to a license, license says yes or no… or limits the cars capabilities to 60Hp and 60mph for example, they also recognise speed signs and limits so could cap to them regardless, so in layman’s terms it could be like heavy restrictioned eco mode.
Possibilities to do it are their, just not actually done yet. 

[Mawsley]

On 08/04/2025 at 12:26, RideWithStyles said:

Most if not all electric cars now have driver profiles, two way communication between the manufacturer and other parties, tracking and so forth (very much like phones), steering corrections, auto brake…

 

Elon needs to understand what a bollard is