How can they justify this?

[Davey Gaga]

I just grabbed my forms so that I can send away for my provisional driving licence today. I've thus discovered that, if you're disabled, you are allowed to drive anything from a car to a tractor to a lawnmower machine at the age of 16, as opposed to the age of 17 for a fully-functional person. I would've thought that was more of a reason NOT to let the person drive so young.

Also, it's FIFTY FUCKING QUID for a first-time provisional driving licence. On top of that, it's only just occurred to me that I've still to pay for my lessons, my tests, my actual car and then all of the millions of quids worth of insurance before I can drive the thing, then finally go bankrupt on the price of petrol.

Jesus fucking shitting christ, WHY am I getting into this?

 

[Bambi]

I think my provisional cost me 27 quid....and I still can't afford to have bloody lessons

50 quid is just extortionate, they are trying to keep people off the roads by making it more expensive the swines, my brother passed his test a while ago but can't actually afford to get a car or anything that comes with it

As for being able to operate all that shit younger if you are disabled.....that just seems absurd

 

[Fusilli]

In answer to the disabled thing, I would have imagined that in some cases where people are physically disabled then having their own car is a much more efficient way of transport than say, the bus, which often don't have space for the likes of a wheelchair.

And I think that the price is the reason that so many people over 17, such as my sister, are still using public transport. It's ridiculous but aslong as there are people who pay it I can't see a whole lot being done.

 

[Davey Gaga]

Hahah, I'm surprised you're not more pissed off because you have this to look forward to, soon enough.

 

[Fusilli]

Hahah, I'm surprised you're not more pissed off because you have this to look forward to, soon enough.

Me? >_> I can honestly say that I'm not at all bothered. I have no desire to start driving as soon as I turn 17.. the idea of me behind the wheel of a car scares me. Me, being someone who constantly without warning drifts off into my own little world and as a result walks into lampposts and stuff. >_>

But if you meant Kelly then nevermind.

 

[Jack's Smirking Revenge]

I think my provisional cost me £39 when I had to get it. Then £30 a go for lessons, and about £90 for the test on top of that. And now I have it all to come again. ><

I'd say the only reason for it is to keep a lot people from driving, thus traffic and so forth is reduced on the roads and there'll be less need for toll areas like some of the major cities have.

 

[Saix]

I spent well in excess of £700 on driving lessons alone - two per week, one and a half hours per lesson, amounting to £60 from Monday to Friday. Shocking stuff. Unfortunately, due to the recent fuel crisis, it's safe to assume lessons are going to increase with it. Worse still if you're getting your own car before passing your test [trusting you're the one paying for insurance].

The Theory [apparently] is always being worked on, constantly being made more challenging for would-be drivers to pass their tests. Although I agree with the ideology of limiting road-users, the methodology is starting to push the extremes.

As for disabled people being allowed to learn sooner than those that aren't, I'm quite confused. Depending on the disability, of course, I don't doubt they'd be utilising specialised vehicles to accommodate their needs - such accommodation would make driving far more manageable... surely? See, this is why Equalities legislation sucks horseshit; they always end up getting more than your average joe.

 

[Donald Trump]

As for disabled people being allowed to learn sooner than those that aren't, I'm quite confused. Depending on the disability, of course, I don't doubt they'd be utilising specialised vehicles to accommodate their needs - such accommodation would make driving far more manageable... surely? See, this is why Equalities legislation sucks horseshit; they always end up getting more than your average joe.

Yes, but they need more money, for special shoes, wheelchairs etc, swings and round-a-bouts. It's like complaining that they use taxes to pay for ramps to be built for disabled people.
We can get our licenses here at 15, and I assume it is the same for disabled people.
Governments would much rather have people on roads. All that tax, petrol, insurance and the car itself, and less people using public transport, it is great for them.
Also as the government runs the license thing, they'd be charging as little as possible. It may not even cover the administration costs.

 

[Auronlu]

I have a hunch that the reason for the disabled thing is because the Rascal motorized scooter, golf carts, and other vehicles commonly used as motorized wheelchairs fall into such bizarre categories that the easiest thing to do was just say, "they can drive it" rather than have to come up with a constantly-updated list of vehicles that qualify as "handicapped assistance."

I still remember an ooooold Doctor who prop from the 1970s, the Whomobile, which looked like a one-man hovercraft but was actually a 3-wheeler under a shell -- commissioned by Jon Pertwee the 3rd doctor for his own personal use, used once or twice in the show -- had to be registered as a "motorized wheelchair" or some such nonsense in the UK.

 

[Doaj]

Equalities is bullshit. We've completely run the idea of natural selection to the ground and then kicked it around a little bit. Our race is doing the opposite of improving because we have laws that let stupid people surpass the intelligent. We have laws to allow disfigured people, whom if our race were still like animals, would've died out immediately can now fully function in society, but only if it gets in our ways.
That is why they can charge 50 fuckin' dollars for a Food Handler's Permit, Driver's License, or whatever the hell they please. There are far too many stupid people out there. Anyone seen the introduction to 'Idiocracy'?