Driving Without a Test

The British have found a new excuse for their bad driving problems: immigrants. Apparently, over 1 million people have a UK license without ever passing a test.

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Marijuana's Small Effect

It turns out that smoking marijuana does not affect your driving that much, according to a study conducted in Connecticut.

Two groups were given cigerettes to smoke, some with marijuana and some without. After that, they went through simulated driving situations. The results - marijuana has little effect on driving. Amazing, isn't it?

However, it's important to remind that driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol is illegal everywhere, and this study won't get you any discounts in your traffic fine.

Drive carefully!
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When Driving is a Necessity

For most people, driving is a privilege. For others, it's a necessity. The DailyPress.com wrote about Karl Hoffman, a man who specializes in driving rehabilitation.

Why is such profession needed? Some people, especially people who are ill or disabled, have no way to move around other than driving. For them, driving is a necessity. Without it, they won't have a way to move around.

Hoffman mentions that when a person gets old, his family usually tells him to get off the wheel at some point. However, the family is not always right. Hoffman, as a professional, can tell whether a person can drive or should really give the keys to someone else.

Read the article, it's really good.
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Getting Away With DUI

Last week it was an officer who got away with DUI, but today it's about ordinary citizens. Apparently, in the Vineyard, alcohol is something you can easily drink before you plan to drive. After all, the court dismisses many cases of drunk driving.

For example, one man was seen stopping 10 yards after a limit line of a stop sign. The officer who gave him the fine smelled alcohol and conducted a field sobriety test, in which the man failed. After that, in official tests, he failed with 0.1% BAC. However, the DUI charge was dismissed and the man only received a fine for the stop sign violation.

The police need to get themselves together and start making better decisions. It's impossible to fight drunk driving with such soft hand.

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Awkward Driving Teaching

Driving in Britain is quite difficult, but teaching how to drive is very easy. All you have to do in order to become a driving instructor is have one year of driving experience. Way below expectations.

Driving instructors call for a tighter regulation in this field, but nothing moves fast with bureaucracy. Right now, new drivers can open a driving school business.

Using a driving test guide can save all this hassle, but apparently people want to feel safer. Well, it turns out that nothing is safe.

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A Change in the UK Driving Test

A week ago, the Telegraph posted that the driving test system in the UK is going to have a major overhaul in order to reduce young drivers' death rates. This overhaul includes a removal of several maneuvers from the driving test. Also, instead of "turn left here, turn right there", the examiners will tell students to drive to a place using the road signs.

This method is trying to break the driving instructors' way of practicing: driving around the same test route over and over. Doing so may seem smart, but it doesn't really change the way a student is tested.

As Chris Fanshawe, a driving instructor, said, the test remains practically the same: students are marked off for small technical errors, like rolling back on hills or touching the curb. Until that is changed, no overhaul will help to reduce death rates.

I fully agree with Chris. Some people, who are excellent drivers, fail their driving test because they hit the curb while they were parking. If someone hit the curb at 100 km/h, there is no reason for him to pass. When someone hits the curb during parallel parking, it doesn't mean he can't drive, it just means he's not very experienced with parallel parking. And driving is not all about parallel parking.

Driving tests around the world should stop revolving around being technical and annoying, and should be scored according to common sense - if the examiner feels comfortable and it doesn't seem like the student is a potential road criminal, the student should pass. Too bad it's not like that.

Think about it.
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