License test Would you pass ???.

I only got my license little under 2 years ago, without having looked at a handbook for 14 years. Most, if not all, is pretty much 'common' sense and is pretty easy these days with multiple choice questions on the computer.
They are picky when it comes to the practical side of it though, deducting marks for stopping to far from the white lines at lights, for not turning your head enough when looking at mirrors etc.

In my opinion, I think it`s too easy for young people to obtain a license.

Theory yes you would pass, driving may have a few bad habits but yes

funny about this thread though

Today i got my Motorcycle licence, one of the studends was 75 yrs old (dont ask me why he was getting it !) passed easy

Hi Axle,

Up until 5 years ago I "THINK" I would have passed with flying colours. I used to teach Industrial Arts and it was not unusual for a senior student to be paying more attention to the handbook than his dovetail joints prior to tomorrows test. With senior kids iI found it was better to fire questions or listen to other students doing the same at the " tomorrows candidates" rather than swimming upsteam.

So far I have not had an at fault accident in 31 years in Australia
Since I retired 5 years ago I have reverted to the rules that I leraned on in a time warp similar to your number of years ago, be they right or since changed.

Caes in point... a month ago I came up behind a lady or a horse in a very rural area, going uphill (so the horse was barely making progress). It was a fairly wide (3 car but not 4 width) suburban road... there were no parked cars. The lady rider moved to her left I passed her on the opposite side of the road at 1 mph faster than he horse. She angrily shouted at us/me "learn the road rules."

If I broke one I don't know which one. It was the first horse I have ever come upon. If I were a student would it fail my knowledge test ?

Regards
SKI'er

no

Pass it!? I'd rewrite it!

13 years ago (having been a driver for 25 years) I took the full Victorian driving test, theory and practice just as an 18 year old would. I passed with full marks. The Vic test is (was?) a joke and fails to adequately examine students. A major consequence of this is that kids are not taught to drive but are taught to pass the test, a practice clearly demonstrated by observing the number of "P platers" who have no idea how to drive and often pay the price of the system's failure by death or injury.

Mike Harding

Nathan got his licence at 16 like me - except 7 years earlier - and he didnt know that (in nsw this is for) that you have to give way to the right when it comes to round-a-bouts.....he thought it was stil the old rule of first on first go thing...rules changed about 10 yrs ago.....so have many people that i have spoken to.........same with alot of other rules

so i wonder whats being done about informing us about these rule changes.....i knew about the round-a-bout rules cos it was in when i got my licence.....

would i pass....if i was being tested without knowing it.....no....cos im slack like indicating,stopping at stop signs and looking over my shoulder all the time to see whats around in the connecting streets.....but if i was doing the test and knew that i was being tested ....yes i'd pass....unless there has been a rule change in the past 9 yrs....

just quickly....my grandmother now 80 with alzeimers only just handed in her licence this year....had alzeimers for 10 years.....no test needed until 80....they even put down on the licence that she had alzeimers and they still gave it to her....

Step-grandfather-in-law same thing....86 yrs with extreme tunnel vision..literally (basically blind in both eyes)...and alzeimers - though not officially diagnosed - still has licence to this day!!.....been caught drink driving 6 times in past 18 months and still nothing done.......

only need to talk to local ambo's in any town about this age prob we have.....we are either too young or too old for anything......no one will ever be happy!!!!

Laura

If you think about it you hardly ever hear of anyone who doesnt pass there license eventualy do you? kinda scary isnt it.

No theory test in the Victorian licence test, just the drive.

Then the road simulator Great money maker this one is for Vicroads.

How do you judge distance on a screen ?
Cost you $20 to resit the simulator eash time, not many people pass it first go

I think all this testing etc.. is rubbish. Only experience will teach kids how to drive. Maybe they need a long period under supervision, and this is now the case in some states where log books are required.

When I got my licence many years ago I fronted the police station on my 18th birthday, the sargent said 'How long have you been driving?' and when I said 'For as long as I remember' he wrote out my licence.

Hi Axle, I am not sure how I would go, been driving for 15 years now and while some of the rules have faded into the past I think that experience counts for so much more as well. I cannot recall the amount of times I have avoided an accident because I was aware of particular dips in roads or being able to see a car but knowing they couldn't see me. As a p plater I probable would have stuck stringently to the rules and had a few accidents.
As a 17 yo p plater (Adelaide) I was travelling down The Parade in Norwood and an 84 yo man pulled out in front of me (he had the stop sign and I was doing 60). Experience would have told me to handle the situation differently and it may not have been as bad. However I smacked right into the side of him. He was fine, I was fine however his wife had several broken ribs and had to be removed from the car by paramedics. Both cars written off.
This brings me to my next point. If I was more experienced I could possibly have reduced the severity of the accident, the driver of the other car had about 60 years experience and he still pulled out from a stop sign. I believe that once elderly reach a certain age that instead of resitting their whole license they should have eyesite or reflex tests. It's not unfairly targeting them, they are in an 'at risk' group. You reach a certain age and you regularly get lots of health check. Why not these two? It could save more than just your own life.

No I don’t think anybody would pass, You think you are doing it right but jump in a car with a experienced instructor and you will get something along the lines off

“ You know how to drive, but you won’t pass the test”

And that is all it is, you are taught how to pass a test not how to drive.

just Off the top of my head I could name 12 things I know I would get pinched for during a driving test.

yet.
I passed both my Normal license and truck license first time.

On my car license test at 17, I was passed off in 20 minutes

On my truck license test I was only out for 15 minutes and the Assessor was satisfied and passed me.

For to many years now,,,,people have been shown how to pass a test and to "steer" a car from A to B.
They are not taught how to drive,
They are not taught road courtesy,
They are not taught anything about how to handle a car,
They are not taught to "read" the traffic.

Basically they ain't taught nothing except arrogance and stupidity in the large majority of cases.
And yes i do see them every day.

rick.

meow.

I would probably pass the test as I sat one(refresher) 4 years ago... My kids on the other hand have the advantage of having some property to learn to drive on as they get older. By the time they reach bitumen, they will understand clutch, brake and steering control/consequences; then they can learn to pass the test.

That is of course if they can see through the dust out at our property, damn dry atm.

Hi Axle,
If you want a refresher on the move I'll lend you my 16 1/2 year old daughter. She's got her L's and has asolutely nothing to learn on the road because in her words she's "heaps good"

I'd say I'd probably squeeze through on the questions but get pinged on some of my bad habits in the practical.

You've actually raised something very interesting to me, we in no way shape or form teach people to truly drive in this country. We teach them to pass a dodgy driving test.

If our spineless politicians truly wanted to lower the road toll the excercise would be true competency based training and there'd be a percentage of the population who'd never receive a licence.

Instead of just dumbing down the test so everyone passes and then whinge when Darwin steps in and chlorinates the gene pool.

How many of you have worked in building and construction with someone you won't let loose with anything as basic as a hammer because they are just plain dangerous! Yet the same danger can have a licence to hurl 1 tonne of Japanese scrap metal at 1 tonne of Korean scrap metal with an approach speed of 200km/hr.

Think about it!

Geoff