What do you think of the new Learner driving law in ireland

Question

I Think it's stupid and won't help anybody!

Answer 1

It is long overdue. I'm from the north, and southerners are notoriously bad drivers. The idiotic L driver law was one of the reasons.

Its the only European country were you could drive to your test, fail it, and then drive home as if nothing happened. Wheres the incentive to get your license in a system like that?

I'm sorry it came at bad timing for you, but its about time the republic got in line with the rest of the developed world.

PS. Good luck with your test  :)

Answer 2

I think it makes sense. The gardai are being pretty fair about it and are only stopping and charging those who drive idiotically (e.g. an imbecile up the road from me who was doing doughnuts in a housing estate at 2 am).I've driven through a number of garda checkpoints (with L plates up) without having my licence checked. I probably wouldn't have applied for my test if the law hadn't been changed.

I don't think anyone has an absolute right to be on the road - more people are killed by cars than guns every year and so you should have to prove,officially,  that you can use one before you are allowed to drive. The only people who can disagree with this are those who don't think they're going to pass. All I can say to them is get some bleedin' lessons - experts say you should have a lesson for every year of your life. There's no way I could afford that,  I had five and was okay. But it is unbelievable the number of people who turn up for tests without every having had a lesson, and most of them fail.  

Answer 3

I think it's about bloody time. Compared to drivers in mainland Europe, Irish drivers are TERRIBLE.

And it's not just the young yahoos who buy their first cars aged 17, as soon as they have their Provisional licence, and tart it up with huge exhausts and undercarriages and what have you, and drive like the clappers, taking corners at high speed and killing themselves, it's also the old ones who never to learned to drive properly, grind the gears, never use the rear view mirrors or indicators, and toodle along in the middle of the road or in the fast lane at 60 km per hour.

Time these people were MADE to realise the dangers of how they drive.  

Answer 4

I think the way it was was stupid.

You could get a provisional, never take a lesson, and after 2 years teach yourself to drive on public roads, no wonder the accident rate was high. I think it was long overdue.

However, because of the way it was, people on provisional licences were driving to work in areas or at times when there just wasn't a bus service and they are now unemployed or had to trade down to motorbikes, so I think they should have come up with a different solution, maybe a longer 'phasing in' period, followed by a temporary 3 year licence to replace second provisional licences for people who could sit a 20 minute basic competence test to show they weren't a huge risk to public safety, they would then get another 3 years to pass the full test.

Answer 5

I think it's ridiculous but I don't think the Guards are too pushy on pulling over drivers with L plates.  The test centres are making lots of money on it though!!!!

Answer 6

The only people who have a problem with this is people who never had any intention to take their test in the first place.

Like Icarus, I am from the North, and it took me 3 attempts and God only knows how much money to pass my test. If I had the option of not bothering my backside to do the test I wouldn't have, but all that leaves us with is a road full of unfit drivers.

People need to realise that they have had it easy all these years with not having to bother passing your test, as this has been a long time coming.

Answer 7

The law itself needed to be brought in.

The way it was brought in was terrible.

The logical thing to do would have been to make it a clause on all new 2nd provisional holders and let the current ones continue on until the 3rd provisional.

I had to wait 8 months for a test and then when I got it it was the day before my final college exams so naturally enough I failed because I had other things on my mind. I then applied again and was due for a test on the 12th of July but the car's NCT had expired and I wasn't able to get it tested in time. The NCT had expired because despite their website saying they post out your appointment the system had changed and you had to ring them. I was withing for the appointment I was told they would make and they were waiting for me to make one. Absolute joke. Now I have to wait until September for my test which is going to come right in the middle of my graduation preparations.

At the moment I am having to walk three miles into work on a cul de sac. I also have to walk na narrow bridge with no footpath that has barely enough room for two cars to pass each other. If I come across two lorries I have three options: Turn back the way I came. Risk getting crushed up against the side of the bridge or jump into the Liffey.

Whose safety is this helping exactly because it's putting me in a lot of danger just because I was 15cm too far from the curb when reversing around a corner. Sorry but if I tried reversing around a corner in real life the gardai would be doing me for dangerous driving.

This law is necessary but their implementation has been a complete joke since day 1.

I had no faults apart from the one on reversing. Just because you haven't passed a test doesn't mean you are dangerous. I would love to see them make people take tests now who passed them thirty years ago. Let's see whohas the higher pass rate shall we.

Answer 8

I HATE IRISH LAWS.. THEY SUCK A**

They are becoming more stupider everyday

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