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Originally Posted by jambutty
On the face of it re-testing every driver every few years makes sense but have you thought it through. There is always a waiting list to take a driving test now so imagine what it would do if re-tests were introduced. I reckon that test centres would have to expand by a factor of five to cope with the extra workload. If nothing else it would take years to train the extra examiners needed.
There are upwards of 10,000,000 drivers in this country so let us assume that a re-test is required every five years that would be upwards of 2,000,000 per year. Even if re-tests were carried out 7 days a week it would still mean 5,479 re-tests per day countrywide.
It just wouldn’t be practical.
Probably a better solution would be to make each new driver take an advanced driving course and test no later than 5 years after they passed the test. If they don’t take the test during that time they lose their license until they do.
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heh, your figures are a bit out, ABI2006 puts number of private car owners as 25 million. It would not be unheard of to improve things that some people feel are too 'hard' .
Even taking this number 25million = 5 M/year across the 370 test centres = 40 tests per day extra. or at 45 mins each 5 extra examiners/centre. Not exactly unachieveable now is it. You would probably save nearly 5 people (traffic plod/nurses/doctors/ambulance/recovery drivers/insurance assessors) each day in reduced accidents etc.
See, think things through and its not that hard to come up with workable solutions.