Motoring4 mins ago
Age Laws - UK.
As AB Ed has just banned my legitimate question on this subject, I shall rephrase it & see if it stays.
Do you agree/disagree with the following current laws? Would you like to see any changes & if so, what?
Legal: Sex at 16
Legal: Have children at 16
Legal: Marriage at 16
Legal: Driving lessons at 17
Legal: Pass driving test - go out on roads alone at 17
Illegal: Purchase/Drink alcohol in public places until 18
Answers
No best answer has yet been selected by smudge. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I also agree with fp, a lot of young drivers are extremely careful mainly because of the rigorous driving tests. It's a few that give us a bad name. It's the older drivers that are the problem. There should be regular driving tests every year or two once a driver reaches 60. That's just common sense. It is a fact that older people have significantly slower reactions, which is the very reason as to why drink driving is banned.
In regard to the other laws, I think they are spot on and can't see a problem with any of the age limits.
dave888 - One of our daughters passed her test first time at 17. I would class her to be, as FP wrote, an EXCELLENT driver, along with the second daughter who passed her test in her twenties. It's just a shame that there are so many '****-*****' on the road with 'something to prove'.
On the flipside, I can't agree more, that some older folk are a liability on the roads. I have driven over 500 miles in the last three days & sitting behind 'dwardling' OAP's, driving well under the speed limit, with no notion that they are causing a long tail back, can be very frustrating!
I am 57 & seem to be doing very well at the moment, but if & when I start getting the slightest inkling that I am becoming a burden, I will not hesitate to call it a day behind the wheel. Sad, but it comes to us all.